Posted on 10/26/2004 11:27:58 AM PDT by Walkin Man
Powell's China Comments Anger Taiwanese
Powell Angers Taiwanese Officials, Weighing in on Split With China and Suggesting Unification
TAIPEI, Taiwan Oct 26, 2004 Secretary of State Colin Powell has angered Taiwanese officials and lawmakers by making unusually strong comments denying that the island is an independent nation and suggesting Taiwan should unify with China.
Washington usually avoids weighing in on the touchy split, which arose when Mao Zedong's communist army won control of the Chinese mainland in 1949 and anti-communist forces took refuge on Taiwan.
But Powell waded into the unification question Monday in interviews with CNN and Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television during a one-day visit to China.
According to a State Department transcript, Powell told Phoenix: "There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy."
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From some previous posts that I have seen over the last few days, it appears that there more here than meets the eye and that a possibility of a trade is being spoken about in closed sessions.
this is a 180 from stated US policy for decades. colin better
send out resumes for a job.
this is a 180 from stated US policy for decades. colin better
send out resumes for a job.
Colin Powell is the biggest disappointment of the Bush Adminsitration. It has been rumored that it was Powell -- and Mineta -- that he was referring to when he said he regretted some of his appointments.
Condi would be good.
Adios Colin.
it's the policy of the President, so how is Colin to be faulted for something that President Bush believes? For decades? I doubt it. How many years has this country been doing business with China despite their human rights abuses?
So did the South in the Civil War.
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I'm sure they wouldn't care. It is not our job to bring freedom to anyone. When we've tried in the past, countries have either outright resisted us (veitnam) or have eventually turned on us (South Korea: 38,000 dead Americans to free them. Now they are violently anti-American).
Taiwan would just turn on us as South Korean and Europe have turned on us. Better not to give the Taiwanese the chance to do the same. I'm more concerned with the state of America than that of foreigners.
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