Yeah, Thems fightin' words.
Posted on 05/17/2004 5:01:42 AM PDT by Paul Ross
Monday, May 17, 2004
TAIWAN TINDERBOX Posted: May 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Beijing last night threatened Taiwan with destruction if President Chen Shui-bian doesn't accept China is "one nation."
In an official statement, the mainland government warned Taiwan leaders to make choices about the future carefully or the "Chinese people will crush their schemes firmly and thoroughly at any cost."
"At present, the relations across the Taiwan Strait are severely tested," the statement said. "To put a resolute check on the 'Taiwan independence' activities aimed at dismembering China ... is the most pressing task before the compatriots on both sides of the strait."
The statement was issued by the Taiwan Affairs Office under the Communist Party and the State Council. It came four days Chen is inaugurated as president.
"Chen Shui-bian has left Taiwan society deeply torn with his vicious mischaracterization of the popular will of the Taiwan people, his unbridled instigation of hostility and animosity towards the mainland, and his frenzied provocation to the status quo that both the mainland and Taiwan belong to the one and same China," the harshly worded document said.
China offered Taiwan a carrot as well as a stick.
If Chen accepts the one-China policy, Beijing held out the hope of negotiations leading to an end to hostilities, establishment of a mechanism to resolve cross-strait disputes, direct commercial and transport links, closer economic co-operation and greater market access.
The statement added: "The Taiwan leaders have before them two roads: one is to pull back immediately from their dangerous lurch towards independence ... The other is to keep following their separatist agenda to cut Taiwan from the rest of China, and in the end, meet their own destruction by playing with fire."
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and the Presidential Office had no immediate response to the statement.
The U.S. has sent its aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Kitty Hawk to cruise the East Asian region ahead of Thursday's inauguration ceremony.
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Ping.
Yeah, Thems fightin' words.
US should threaten Beijing right back for even suggesting such a thing.
We've got our hands full right now with Iraq. Let the mighy United Nations handle this one. I'm sure France and Spain will send troops immediately. Even though I am a die-hard conservative, I'm getting a little tire of being the guardian of the gate for the entire world.
What's wrong with those stupid Chinese. Good grief, they have a billion people they can't even take care of now. Well, at least if they do attack Taiwan, maybe that'll get the Iraqi Prisoner Scandal off of the lead story on every news network in the world.
They'll still blame it on us.
Either we somehow appeared to aggressive to China and they took out their frustration on Taiwan, or we should have seen it coming and should have done everything to protect them.
Course we won't hear anything about how vile and brutal the Chicom regime is. Or how they're attacking a nation with the intention of conquering rather than liberating.
If mainland China crushes the people of Taiwan, I do hope the free-traitors aren't bashful about accepting full credit for making China strong enough to be a threat.
That's OK - I'll be sure to remind them.
Actually they ARE two separate countries, unless you consider the communist provinces to be in rebellion. But the PRC loses face if you say so. And all the savages in the eastern hemisphere have to kill everybody over face. The world will be much better off without 1 billion savages. Make our day. Buh-bye.
Thanks for the ping. Sounds like China made Chen an offer he just can't refuse....
Prairie
Wonder how well-armed the Tiawanese really are ?
Probably depends upon how well they'd hold off the surface-to-surface missle attack.
We're pulling 4,000 troops out of Korea to send them to Iraq. It must be obvious to China that we're totally strapped, and East Asia is way on our back burner. It must be very tempting to China.
Yep.
Thanks for the ping!
If the South Africa regeme could have a hydrogen bomb by 1964...
Which begs the question: Can S. Korea stop the North, and can China get across the straights?
Time will tell.
I threaten Beijing with destruction.
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