Posted on 02/19/2005 11:10:45 PM PST by HAL9000
Now if only Japan and Taiwan could link up their water boundaries.
Nah... who'd a thunk China would oppose it?
Taiwan is NOT another Hong Kong. The chinese would like to think so. Who was the brainiac that let the chinese have HK, anyhow?
I believe that was the British.
Hong Kong's infrastructure e.g. water supply is dependent on the PRC. Hence, the Brits did not have much leverage. However, Taiwan aint HK and the US aint the UK.
Taiwan could not ask for two tougher team members than the two on the left in the photo above.
China has been asking for an up-yours for decades vis-a-vis Taiwan.
Barring Hitlery-2008, it will get it.
There have been two developments this week in foreign policy that suggest that dumping Colin Powell was a good thing for this country. Finally a statement has been issued supporting Taiwan. It's been a long time since we have heard anything like this. And there was also a statement about supporting Israel if Iran attacked her, wasn't that the gist of it?
Talk about a BARF ALERT! HA!
Please refrain from doing things that affect peace and stability in Asia and Pacific while we threaten Taiwan if they ever declare independence, fire missiles and hold naval exercises geared toward an invasion in the Taiwan Straits, etc.
The British 99 year lease ran out. But I always wondered why that meant that Hong Kong had to revert to Chinese rule. I think a place belongs to the people who live there.
Wasn't that about supporting Israel if Israel attacked the Iranian nuke projects?
Seems kind of short-sighted. They should have been building desalination plants long before that in anticipation of the turnover.
I'll bet China is working on creative new ways to funnel money to the Hildabeast's campaign chest.
In 1997 a Chinese Communist official cited the speeches of HRC as textbook examples of propaganda.
China has become a world player.
Yep, it's distressing, but deal with it.
a) The price of oil is stuck in the $40's per bbl because there is now another net importer country growing at 10% GDP with a billion people, and it only gets worse from here...
b) Our national debt is financed by other countries making ivestments ... and sleep well tonight knowing it is mostly Saudi and Chinese money ...
c) Whilst we try to democratize the Mid-east (which I support BTW), China is quietly befriending our neighbors in the Carribean and Latin America.
THAT IS THE REAL SCANDAL! that nobody sees. Ronald Reagan once boasted that (paraphrasing) "not one inch of soil has fallen under communist control."
OK, I'll stop babbling, but, please don't ask the rhetorical question if I'd rather be a resident of Taiwan or Caracas right now.
Well, OK, that's easy. You stay with your friends come hell or high water ...
"I think a place belongs to the people who live there."
This is especially true in the case of Taiwan. In the past 110 years Taiwan and Mainland China have only been under the same government for 4 years and this is being extremely generous because during the period from 1945-1949 there was really no effective government of China since the country was in the midst of a civil war. During the 230 years prior to this there was only about 10 years that China (under the Ching dynasty) really made any effort to develop Taiwan. Other than Taiwan was at best ignored. In all of China's history with Taiwan, the people of that Island have gotten nothing positive from the Mainland: the were negelected and mistreated by the Ching and then later traded off to Japan for peace, they were abused and suppressed by the KMT, and they are currently being threatened by the PRC. The people of Taiwan have more than earned their right to choose their own future without threats of intimidation.
I feel that we should be behind Taiwan %110, and tell China to go shove it.
But I worry that we’re just using this as leverage to get China to lean heavily on North Korea; and then back off.
I agree. Taiwan is its own country and any attack by china will be met with swift retaliation.
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