* “What has happened in Hong Kong has lost Taiwan for China forever,” said David Roche, president and global strategist at consultancy Independent Strategy.
* Even though China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its rule, Roche said he doubts Beijing would go down that route for fear of worsening relations with the U.S.
China may never “reunify” with Taiwan now that the central government in Beijing has tightened its control over Hong Kong, one strategist said on Monday.
“In a sense, the big price that China’s paying for Hong Kong is actually Taiwan,” David Roche, president and global strategist at consultancy Independent Strategy, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and sees the democratic self-ruled island as a runaway province.
The Chinese Communist Party has never governed the island, but has sought to push Taiwan to accept Beijing’s rule under a “one country, two systems” framework.
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WNU Editor: I will not say forever. But there is no question in my mind that a majority of the people in Taiwan no longer have any interest to live under China's “one country, two systems” proposal.
