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To: LindyBill who wrote (18896)	12/6/2003 1:07:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 793597

<China will never agree to full independence for Taiwan> Never is a very long time Lindy. My guess is that such discussions will become irrelevant as the surge of cyberspace and the changes in the human condition accelerate making all sorts of 20th century issues irrelevant. Full independence has no meaning these days. China, Albania and North Korea tried writing their own history for a few decades. The world is so interlinked, integrated and tied up that independence is fine in theory, but trivial in practise. The process is accelerating. At the beginning of the 20th century, when rural agricultural ways of life dominated the planet and the industrial revolution was only decades old and still non-existent in large parts of the world, independence was sort of possible. Now it's a very limited concept. If Taiwan choose independence, it will involve increasingly close ties to China, so it'll really be mostly talk and a bit of chest puffing by some politicians. The money, goods, services and people will be flooding across the border. Mqurice

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