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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: greenspirit who wrote (67756)1/22/2003 4:20:25 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Michael,
As bad as china is, it is also a country on the road to democracy. Time is on our side and Taiwans as well. They will not cash in their economy to conquer a small island, unless the US becomes a threat. If we continue to give them big power status, they will inexorably turn toward democracy and eventually peacefully settle with Taiwan. Tibet was in an earlier time, and the West had no way of helping them to defend themselves. It is a tragedy what happened there, but was out of our control. Historically one could argue that tibet is part of china just as easily as saying it should be independent. Its the brutality of the chinese that is more at question. Taiwan has the assets to prevent that.
Good foreign policy is really multiple foreing policies customized for different states so we have a china policy, a korea policy, an iraq policy, a syria policy and so on. mike
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