Thus Beijing is now in a position to demand more from the US. The PRC could be even more insistent on its own ideology, thereby pushing cross-strait political relations deeper into the mire, despite the fact that it could lose out on common interests it shares with Taiwan in terms of economics and culture.
但弔詭的是，若北京可以向美國要更多，它可能更會堅持意識型態，兩岸反將更陷入政治泥淖，錯失經濟文化面的共同利益。