[tallhappy]

Bush should not even respond to this but consistently and unequivocably say we stand with fellow free people and have freedom as our ultimate goal.

Communists will not start a war.

Bush should simply call the ChiComs and say we are going to recognize Taiwan and you will not start a war.

Then later he invites the Taiwanese president to the White House and they all say how they all have nothing but the best of intentions for China and hope to continue helping China build its economy via the partnerships that are inplace and bring an ever higher friendship, cooperation and standard of living to the Chinese people, Taiwanese people and US people.

Communists are not strong enough to start a war against the US let alone Taiwan if they wanted to.

And only the most extremist psychos would want to and there are few of them.

They are big at killing and torturing Christians who don't fight back or old ladies who do breathing exercises.

There is no way they will fight Taiwan or us and their whining to Bush is evidence of it. They want Bush to do their dirty work for them because they know their Wizard of Oz scam has been seen through by Taiwan.

[Quix]

They may not yet be quite strong enough.

However, up and down the line of command, the upper leaders are lied to.

They are told much more than in our military only what the leaders are perceived to want to hear.

There's some effort to get at the truth at the troops level but it's terribly anemic compared to the depths and breadths of the lies.

Beijing probably feels enormously potent economically as well as in numbers of potential combatants. And they are probably convinced that technologically they are but a few years off of being able to take on the USA.

But, if push comes to shove, THEY ARE NOT AT ALL BELOW HOLDING LA HOSTAGE. And, they are not at all above drawing Russia, Mexico, Iran et al into a conflagration with the USA.

We are perceived still, I'd wager--even after Iraq and Afghanistan--as much weaker than we perceive ourselves.

They have to consider the weakness they paid Billdo to inflict on us. Add in the depeletion of our troops and material in Afghanistan and Iraq . . . There are several reasons they could consider us challangable.

BTW, I've forgotten how many years you lived in China???

I think your scenario would be a greatly effective way to get a lot of my loved ones in Taipei as well as in Fujian killed post haste.

[Quix]

"Communists will not start a war."

And this underwhelming conviction came in a dream or what?

Sounds rather preposterous, to me.

[Filibuster_60]

You continue to make huge assumptions about China's weakness and Taiwan's security. Yes, perhaps China's efforts to enlist Bush's support on Taiwan is indicative of their weakness, but the real question is: Why should Taiwan care what we tell them if they're so secure?