[DoughtyOne]

I don't even like to address this issue anymore. What with the idiots that think it's great to arm China and gift them with our patent database, finance their military and their proliferation of WMDs to the planet's rogue nations, it's pointless. Why watch people who haven't got the brain power to know this is all wrong make fools of themselves. Frankly it's depressing. As for Taiwan, we haven't got the class to defend them. It's the almighty buck. Screw character and doing what's right. Our founding fathers would line us up and shoot us if they could see what we've done with the nation they gave us.

[Jhoffa_]

Frankly it's depressing. As for Taiwan, we haven't got the class to defend them. It's the almighty buck. Screw character and doing what's right. Our founding fathers would line us up and shoot us if they could see what we've done with the nation they gave us.

That should be quote of the day..

[AIG]

Taiwan's in a tough bind. If its factories don't move to the mainland, then they risk losing their competitiveness to their Japanese, Korean, American, etc. couterparts. The best Taiwan can hope for is that the Taiwanese businesses that do move to the mainland send some money back to Taiwan, but the overall picture is still gloomy because even the more "value-added" businesses that currently remain in Taiwan and have not moved to the mainland will eventually move too. For instance, LCD monitors are a higher-margin product that Taiwan has tried to keep production of in Taiwan, but even LCD monitors are increasingly being manufactured in the mainland now because of the mainland's lower overall production costs (land, labor, utilities, etc.). Taiwan was an export-based economy to begin with and never developed much of a large, domestic, internal economy in anything, so Taiwan doesn't have much to fall back on as its hi-tech crown jewels continue to migrate to the mainland.

[DBtoo]

I couldn't agree with you more.

And there's the problem over there of the sex ratio. Because of their one-child policy, there are many more males than females as a result of selective abortion and infanticide of baby girls. Whenever a country has too many males to females, war is inevitable.