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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: Bosco who wrote (8913)7/24/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata  Read Replies (3) of 9980
 
Bosco-

From your newshour link:
<<And this one-China
principle was also very much accepted internationally by all
the nations around the world and by Chinese people
everywhere. So I think really it is important that this
one-China principle should be sticked to in all the future
discussions.>>

The US government should not accept this. It doesn't matter that "one-China [was] accepted internationally by all the nations". That's irrelevant claptrap. Of no more import is the opinion of "Chinese people everywhere". What matters is the collected will- if that's not too much of an oxymoron- of the people of Taiwan. Should they wish to be independent of Beijing, folks on the other side of the Taiwan Straits have no moral basis for imposing their dictatorship on them. As a libertarian who believes that a threat to liberty anywhere is a threat to liberty everywhere, I hope my government would do what it could to sustain the will of the people of Taiwan.

BTW, I would that same standard to my own nation. Canada, which has a stronger separatist movement than the US, has to face this question straight on. One can hardly imagine Ottawa massacring peaceful people wanting independence. Why should not China be held to that same standard of civilized behavior?

Larry
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