Posted on 07/31/2004 2:45:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
If your interested in reading realistic novels,i suggest you try works by Humphrey Hawksley(a serving BBC journo)-they are far more credible & disturbing than the feel-good "techno crap" dished out by Tom Clancy & Dale Brown
http://www.hhawksley.co.uk/
About the "Punny" comment-i did'nt mean it bout Taiwan.But for South Korea ( & its percieved interests) ,Taiwan is indeed miniscule w.r.t to China.You'r right about the US wanting to see Taiwan stay independent,but will it fight for it-unfortunately, I don't think so.When was the last time 2 hugecountries of massive economic importance &military capility fight each other-WW2(where only one had nukes)
15 - "The last time someone tried to leave the US was thirteen states of the South. "
You have it backwards.
Red China left Nationalist China. The last traditional government of China is on Taiwan - Nationalist China. The breakaway part is Red China, which broke away from Nationalist China.
26 - "There are two nasty little problems. First, China is now the center of manufacturing for the world - and, should they decide to wage war, they would have a notable advantage over the rest of us. We would have trouble even finding clothing or shoes for our troops if we were in a conflict with them.
The second problem - which connects with the previous thread on oil - is that if their economy stagnates for whatever reason (say, high energy prices or a global recession) the populace might become restive. And they wouldn't be the first country to choose war as a diversion for an unhappy population."
most free-traitors haven't got the ability to grasp such simple concepts. You must approach them on their own level, as 2 year olds.
29- "I think we have a mandate to put a base on Taiwan."
We used to have bases in Taiwan up to the 1970's. I was stationed at Taipei Air Station and there was also CCK (Ching Chang Kang) Air Base .
Perhaps Nixon did away with them, for re-approachment with Red China?
52 - Fee, please stop using 'we' when talking about America, and use what is proper for you: 'we', when talking about Red China.
You are not an American.
If or when China adopts a "democratic system", Taiwan still may not want to reunify.
Even after democracy comes to the mainland, it will take several generations or more before the voting people of the mainland are able to wash the mindset of statism from their brains.
The people of Taiwan don't need such invalids voting in their elections.
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