if I sit across from you feigning blows to your nose, conducting
military exercises off your coast, arm and subsidize a break-away province
that is just off your coast, all of these could easily be construed as
provocative.
You're getting way, way back into history in some of this. Are you really saying that by continuing to fly missions we've been flying for twenty years, it's our fault that their airplane, intentionally or accidently, runs into our airplane in international air space while it is flying a mission that is completely legal under international law? Are you really sure you want to say that?
As to Taiwan, let's not forget that Taiwan was independent when Chaing Kai-Shek escaped there in 1945. Back in the 50s we were taught that the native Taiwanese were invaded by the Chinese, who took over and basically subjugated the natives.
What's interesting to me is that the same people who have supported self-determination and the rights of separation in such areas as Kosovo, Bosnia, Chechnya, Pakistan, etc., and who condemn the Chinese invasion of Tibet, are so willing to accept that Taiwan should have no right to self-determination. Guess it depends which end of the political spectrum you're on. It's wrong for Serbia to try to retain control over Kosovo, but right for China to try to retain control over Taiwan. One people deserve self-determination. The others don't.
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