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To: Dayuhan who wrote (9095)	8/12/1999 9:11:00 AM
From: Bosco	Respond to of 9980

Hi Steven, you sez "I assume that there are factors involved that we do not know about. A friend of mine, overseas Chinese, suspects that both sides are making hay out of the controversy, and will press for concessions from the US in return for letting it quiet down. He may be right." If one were to subscribe the conspiracy theory, Jiang and Lee could be in it together to dupe Senator Helms to sell Taiwan a few billion worth of advanced weaponry. After the transaction, China and Taiwan had a merger and all these new assets would end up in the PLA labs <VBG>! irreverently, Bosco

To: Dayuhan who wrote (9095)	8/13/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

Steven- <<A friend of mine, overseas Chinese, suspects that both sides are making hay out of the controversy, and will press for concessions from the US in return for letting it quiet down. He may be right. >> And he may not be right. I suspect there are less imaginative- albeit less interesting to those of a conspiratorial bent- reasons for "the controversy". As I recall- I could be wrong, and I'm not going to bother looking it up- you once opined, of the mainland's takeover of Taiwan, that "It will not be violent". I wonder what it might take to shake you- or indeed, whoever said that- out of his congenial view of the intentions of the dictators in Beijing. Would this suffice? washingtonpost.com Larry