Beijing is an evil government. It should come as a surprise to no one that the flag-burning, real freedom-hating pro-Castro Horrible People don't understand that fact. Taipei is free. Beijing is not. Taiwan is Western. The People's Republic is not.
We opened Beijing to counteract the grand designs of a communist hegemony under the Russians. Today, a different breed of neotechnocratic communism seeks an empire of their own and that is something which should be handled appropriately. Opening Taipei isn't the worst idea out there.
This is so simplistic, it's mind blowing.