To: charles m
Looks like the Chinese will eventually take back Taiwan without firing a single shot.
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The KMT is Taiwan's conservative party and more anti-mainland than the DPP. The DPP is much cozier with communists.
To: Right_Wing_Madman
Then why does the article say that the KMT will produce closer relations with the mainland?
5 posted on
01/12/2008 1:00:04 PM PST by
tlj18
(Does Fred still have a chance? I sure would like to think so....)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
The KMT is Taiwan's conservative party and more anti-mainland than the DPP. The DPP is much cozier with communists.
Uh.... not at all... The DPP is pro-independence, the KMT is not. Just because the KMT is conservative means very little, especially looking at China's current pro-business leadership. The Chinese would much rather have a conservative but technically non-independent Taiwan (Republic of China), than a pinko liberal "Republic of Taiwan."
Think of it this way: the KMT is a Chinese party, the DPP is an indigenous Taiwanese party. And the KMT wants to do business in China. It's a no-brainer. Unless the KMT has the balls to actually threaten the Communist Party's grip on the mainland, the mainland will prefer the KMT over the pro-independence DPP hands down.
6 posted on
01/12/2008 1:06:57 PM PST by
charles m
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