The Bush "doctrine" has always been that Taiwan is part of China and that neither country should act recklessly. Right now, it is Chen and the DPP who are doing so.
They have a right to be free of Chinese Communist control.
The mainland may be prosperous, but it is a filthy dictatorship.
Too many people including our own government put money ahead of principle.
Chen has political problems of his own from what I understand, but I know the mainland will use any means to take control of Taiwan. That stinks.
If Chen wants to stand up to them, more power to him.
We don't need apologists for communism (with free market economics or not).
China=Castro with prosperity.
That "doctrine" has been around since Nixon.
"The Bush "doctrine" has always been that Taiwan is part of China and that neither country should act recklessly."
Wrong with this repeated myth of yours.
The Bush doctrine is the same as previous Presidents' doctrine on the issue and the operative terms in that doctrine never refer to "reckless". The operative term is "military force". The issue cannot be resolved by military force and any act by China contrary to that would mean we no longer have an agreement with China on that issue. That is the doctrine.
Taiwan has got yippy little dog syndrome.
They can act tough hiding behind US skirts.
Americans busted their asses to keep these idiotic testosteroned morons off each others' backs by brokering the "One China" policy, which, for whatever idiotic reasons, ROC-Chinese and PRC-Chinese seemed to be able to grab onto to protect their childish concepts of "face."
Whatever. AMerica has been "culturally sensitive" enough to let these idiots live under whatever dumbass pretense they preferred.
But if Chen wants to come out form under that skirt and stir up a fight, the adolscent jackass should be kicked out on his own. Chen's bravado is based on using the blood of America sailors to prop up his manhood.
If they want to terminate the "one china" status quo, then they need to sacrifice their boys. And it will f'up the entire Paicifc trade and commerce and economy.
We've protected them for 50 years. It's their gd turn to defend that godforsaken filthy little tropical dump of an island.