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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (161435)	5/5/2005 4:30:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<Taiwan has always been part of China. Define "ALWAYS" for me, please...> Yiwu the Mad and Bubba the Babbling seem to think it was sometime shortly after the Big Bang, and well before humans appeared on the scene. I suppose they think that it became part of China for absolutely certain when the first human made it from China to Taiwan a few thousand years ago [though maybe the first person arrived from somewhere else and not actually China]. I don't think Taiwan has always been part of China, I was just making the argument to Twofowler who seems to think that Japan's rampages started just before WWII. They occupied Taiwan in the 19th century, when Britain was acendant and obviously a threat to Japan as an expansionist empire, right on their doorstep. I was arguing that Japan had good cause to play empire, just as the USA and Britain and USSR and others always did. When the USSR tried to set up shop in Cuba, the USA blockaded Cuba and rattled the sabres. It's what empires do. Mqurice

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