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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (69310)1/28/2003 12:13:30 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Taiwan belongs to the people of Taiwan. They are the ones who built a democratic republic, with free speech rights, free expression of religion, a free press and much more. When you infer Taiwan belongs to the 1.3 billion Chinese living on the mainland, what you're really saying is it belongs to a handful of communists who control a police propaganda machine which silences the majority of its citizens.

Despite the very real and immediate military threat from an aggressive communists China in The Battle of Quemoy, the Battle of Tachen Islands, and the Battle of the Taiwan Straits, where the communists promoted a policy of "washing Taiwan in a sea of blood", Taiwan has succeeded spectacularly. The simple truth is, we don't know what the Chinese people want. Their voice is not being heard. Its been silenced into submission by a government unable to develop beyond a teenager level of sophistication.

The Fulan gang may be more representative of your average Chinese citizen. Until real reform comes to the people of China and they are allowed to express their disagreement toward the government, we simply don't know.

I truly hope one day this situation changes and the wonderful people of China are given a representative government they can be proud of. When it does, I'm sure re-unification will come swiftly.
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