Posted on 04/21/2006 3:18:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
In remarks certain to please visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday told a gathering of Chinese-American business and cultural leaders in San Francisco that the United States has no obligation to defend Taiwan if it provokes China into a military confrontation.
Feinstein's comments came on a day when Hu and President Bush sat down together in Washington to discuss a range of issues -- including Taiwan, which China regards as the No. 1 issue in U.S.-China relations. Before his first U.S. visit this week, Hu urged Taiwanese leaders to resume talks with China and called actions toward independence a threat to the region.
``It is important to point out a common misconception -- nowhere does the TRA explicitly require the U.S. to go to war with the mainland over Taiwan,'' Feinstein said, referring to the Taiwan Relations Act, at the annual conference of the Committee of 100 in San Francisco. The group helps foster U.S.-China relations.
The act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1979, is the foundation of U.S.-Taiwan relations. Some supporters of Taiwan assume the United States is legally bound to defend the island, but the United States' obligation to Taiwan has increasingly become a point of contention as Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has promoted Taiwan independence. His provocations have irked the Bush administration and caused tensions in U.S.-Taiwan relations.
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory. Since 1979, the United States has acknowledged China's ``one-China'' policy and recognizes Beijing as the legitimate government of all China.
Feinstein isn't the first U.S. official to assert that the United States isn't legally bound to defend Taiwan, but her comments are certain to cause ripples. Bush had pledged in 2001 that the ``U.S. will do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan.''
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What a filthy slime bag of a hag!
Why are ALL DemocRAT women either ugly, stupid or traitorous?
I understand her husband has business interests there?
Of course, that has no impact on her policy, I'm sure.
"Exists". It's the same with Israel.
She rode to national fame on the basis of an assassination. Before Moscone was killed, she couldn't get elected mayor. Came very very close to being recalled a few years after her "ascension." I never understood how either she or Boxer had statewide appeal, but then I forgot that whole "Year of the Woman crap they foisted on us that got them entrenched.
Translation: The US is not obligated to defend Taiwan if it in any way depreciates Richard Blum's (her hubby) investments in China.
No conflict of interest ... "oh hubby! Their attacking your masters again... shall I issue the appropriate propaganda?" Sheesh! Frankenfeinstein in top form.
What are you willing to do?
Will you volunteer for our military and spend the next few years in Taiwan?
Would you be willing to spend a whole lot more in taxes to pay other people to do it?
Or will you just type stuff on a message board?
My perrenial question: why is she (and her ilk) walking around?
Will you volunteer for our military and spend the next few years in Taiwan?
Been there and done that already. USMC and did it for Saudi Arabia when a big bad guy named Saddam invaded his next door neighbor. You might have heard of something called Desert Storm?
We should defend Taiwan just as strenuously.
From the White House website, from President Bush's remarks of April 20, 2006, on the arrival of Hu:
The United States will also be candid about our policy toward Taiwan. The United States maintains our one China policy based on the three communiqués and the Taiwan Relations Act. We oppose unilateral changes in the status quo in the Taiwan Strait by either side, and we urge all parties to avoid confrontational or provocative acts. And we believe the future of Taiwan should be resolved peacefully.
He probably thinks Texas is part of Mexico, too.
But we is still not you.
Eventually, China will attack Taiwan and this is how we'll interpret the situation, that Taiwan provoked the attack. We'll 'give' Taiwan to China in exchange for some vague assurance that China will hold back N. Korea from attacking S. Korea or some such. I suspect China is also smart enough to attack Taiwan when there's a Democrat in the White House.
Because we are a vassal state. Without the propping up of our currency that China does by funding our deficit spending, the economy would collapse. We would be up the creek without a paddle, China would go back in time to the 80's.
"Taiwan is a US Territory. The US may elect to defend it or to sell it or grant it statehood."
.....cooked well done to our liking!!!!
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