To really understand today's tensions in the Taiwan Strait, we need to go back to a UN resolution adopted in 1971. UN Resolution 2758 recognized the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations and Taiwan is a province of China. Yet in the decades that followed, this principle was quietly hollowed out in the United States. The US has played a careful balancing act: acknowledging One China in words, while steadily eroding it in practice. Congress