[Jeff Head]

We are headed for confrontation...and they are preparing for it as rapidly as possible. IMHO, we should njot wait to go this issue until they are ready and thus do it on their terms.

Sell Taiwan AEGIS and the latest PATRIOT technology. Bring them under the Regional Missile Umbrella and pointedly inform the Chinese of this. If we in anyway give in on Taiwan and allow that free nation to go down, there will be a new leader emerging on the Western Rim and the impact of which way the Taiwan (ROC) issue goes will dtermine how the pendulum swings in the entire region IMHO.

[Centurion2000]

Sell Taiwan AEGIS and the latest PATRIOT technology. Bring them under the Regional Missile Umbrella and pointedly inform the Chinese of this. If we in anyway give in on Taiwan and allow that free nation to go down, there will be a new leader emerging on the Western Rim and the impact of which way the Taiwan (ROC) issue goes will dtermine how the pendulum swings in the entire region IMHO.

IF we sell out Taiwan to the Chicoms, THAT will be the DEFINING moment in the USA's decline as a superpower and China's ascendecy.

[elmer fudd]

Actually, I think Taiwan needs nukes of it's own. It's fine for us to say that we'll help defend them, but everyone knows that we hold elections every four years and all the Chicoms have to do is wait until the time is right.

[jriemer]

Sell Taiwan AEGIS and the latest PATRIOT technology.

The delivery of USS Kidd-class destroyers next year to Taiwan is token help but it's 1970s technology and ship design.