Tackle the Taiwan Straits Crisis Now
Now that the Bush administration has achieved «something» on the Korean peninsula, perhaps it could do something about Taiwan. But, not just what Beijing wants. Michael Turton's apoplectic response to a Reuters article towing the Communist line,/a> is noteworthy in itself. It's always worth pointing out: China can bluntly say (1) we're threatening war and (2) we're not going to negotiate even one little bit but you can read in actual analysis from thinking human beings that - I'm not making this up - President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan is a radical. I suppose, from the point of view of a human history that offers us about 100,000 years of conflict settled by force, that democracy and referendums are a rather radical approach....
Taiwan's president Chen Shui-bien gave a great interview to Der Spiegel, and his response to Beijing is just as dramatic and noteworthy.
SPIEGEL: Your desire to be admitted into the UN would be more likely to succeed if you could come to terms with Beijing - just as the two German nations did 35 years ago.
Chen: We want to negotiate with China, and we see Germany as a model. But for the Chinese there is nothing but the One China policy. Beijing apparently has no interest in dialogue.
SPIEGEL: But you consider reunification with China both possible and desirable?
Chen: We have no way of knowing what will happen in the future. Currently, at any rate, reunification is out of the question.
So, can the US Congress help Taiwan?
...the US Congress, which houses the largest collection of invertebrates outside the Smithsonian, took the State Department to task for its opposition to Taiwan's purchase of F-16s, and sent a resolution through the Committee on the F-16 purchase...
The US opposes the deployment of cruise missiles because they are «offensive weapons» but it wants to sell Taiwan submarines- which it told Taiwan it could not have for the twenty years prior to 2001 - because they were «offensive weapons.» And of course, the 1,000 missiles that China aims at Taiwan receive no attention....I guess they must be defensive weapons.
Seriously, readers, tell me who you think is more dangerous, Taiwan or the PRC?
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