Powell's China Comments Anger Taiwanese

ABC News ^ | Oct 26, 2004

[Shqipo]

The PRC invasion of Taiwan will commence the day after the close of the 2008 Olympics.

[NY Attitude]

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.

[kingattax]

this is a 180 from stated US policy for decades. colin better

send out resumes for a job.

[kingattax]

this is a 180 from stated US policy for decades. colin better

send out resumes for a job.

[ought-six]

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.

[MaryJaneNC]

Condi would be good.
Adios Colin.

[cyborg]

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?

[NY Attitude]

I believe that Condalezza Rice or Rudy Gulianni would be an excellent choice to replace Colin Powell. They both display intestinal fortitude not displayed by Powell.

[Ken K]

So did the South in the Civil War.

[SunkenCiv]

The whole reason for the Shanghai Communique was to keep Beijing in line, with a vague "one China" joint statement, without specifying which was the real one. Powell (if this quote is correct) has just managed to reshape decades of policy dating back to the Nixon administration.

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[chronotrigger]

I wonder how the founding fathers would rate an American govenment that supports communist slavery and promotes the death of freedom?

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.