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Taiwan faces a strategic dilemma: It is principally dependent on China for its economic prosperity while principally relying on the US for its security. The author argues that, if the US is to keep nudging Taiwan toward absorption with China, there can be no credible reassurances. Now is the time to halt a drift that is dangerous not only to the security of the Taiwanese but to the United States’ interests in the region and to the credibility of the global alliance system.