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To: long-gone who wrote (50833)3/28/2000 10:13:00 PM
From: Archie Meeties  Read Replies (1) of 116768
 
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Richard,

This is how I see the China-Taiwan invasion.

What does China want out of Taiwan?
Land, no. Resources, no.
People, yes. Economic engine, yes.

Does a military invasion accomplish this?
No. The opposite, if anything. The people who drive the economic engine will flee.

Then why make such overtures?
To generate fear in the Taiwanese.
To prepare the way for a "peaceful" resolution. ie. assimilation by feigning capitulation, putting away the guns they had no intention of using.

So what you are reporting (with admirable frequency) is the Chinese attempt to polarize the US against military action, and scare Taiwan into making a non-military assimilation "One China" a more palatable option.
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