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To: BubbaFred who wrote (51274)	6/27/2004 5:37:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	of 74559

<the distance to the dam would allow interception of any airborned missile. Furthermore the precision is doubtful. > Bubba, those cruise missiles fly between trees and fast. They won't be intercepted. On precision, they are these days targeted to centimetres. Surely you have seen pictures of them in action in Iraq. <China has time on their side as economic forces will eventually absorb Taiwan to the larger group.> This is a much more sensible attitude. New Zealanders like to think of themselves as independent, but economic ties to Oz and the USA mean it's nominal independence only. Those two countries don't need to order New Zealand to be part of them. They don't care. We aren't going anywhere and will continue to trade with them and go along with their ideas for the most part [though we organize our own parking tickets and lunch]. NZ was part of Oz about 100 years ago and became independent. Both were part of Britain. Both became independent of Britain. New Zealand recently [and is in the process of] severing one of the last links to Britain with the ditching of the Privy Council [which I think isn't a particularly good idea to do]. That will still leave Queen Elizabeth as sovereign, but there are moves towards going the way of a republic [banana variety it seems to me]. It's all been quite friendly and painless. China and Taiwan could do such a thing too. But China isn't into friendly and painless!! They like domination and suppression. In the same way as NZ being independent of Oz, Taiwan being independent doesn't make any difference to China. I don't know about other islands and don't have an opinion on them. < There are other islands in dispute, such as "Etorofu, Kunashiri, and Shikotan, and the Habomai group occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia, claimed by Japan; Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima/Tokdo) disputed with South Korea; Senkaku-shoto (Senkaku Islands) claimed by China and Taiwan"> <I wonder why Taiwan doesn't use today for negotiating the terms for it's future economic base and survival. > They are - they are signing up to deals with China every day. The links are getting stronger and stronger. Give it another decade and independence won't have much meaning. Mqurice

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