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To: RealMuLan who wrote (297253)11/9/2004 6:30:21 PM
From: j-at-home  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
[And I read somewhere at least 16 US troops have already been killed in the last 2 days.]

I'm sure the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis murdered would consider that number ridiculously trivial. It is difficult to be sympathetic when they are essentially mercenaries hired to fight in a foreign land. Oil for blood.

OT:

If you don't mind me asking, is "home" (so to speak) China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan? My mum is from Taiwan (but she left in 1959 to the US). Wondered if you had any perspective or expectation of how the China/Taiwan situation will play out. Is force likely in the next decade or a gradual "absorption" where Taiwan's economic relevance declines and with it any political strength until there are no options anyway (but reunification)?

If the answer requires a lot of time or background don't sweat it. I'm just curious to see if the end game is visible yet and a "yes/no" answer is more than fine. I think China just passed Japan (in 2004) in terms of the size of their economy or some similar metric. The capacity for dynamic change in this world continues to amaze (like Japan & Germany from their respective defeats in WWII, or the fall of the Soviet Union more recently). I could never contemplate the US losing its position of predominance but it is beginning to seem plausible to my "demented" mind. -g-
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