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To: gao seng who wrote (555)	9/4/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1449

I think you are backpeddling on this, but so be it. Your Domino Theory gets applied every time there is a dispute within countries, and the terrible events never occur. You know why? Because these are essentially civil wars, fought between, for example, Koreans, or Vietnamese or Chinese. The PRC and Taiwan have a long history together that has nothing to do with the PRC vs. Japan or any other country. What you should try to understand is that even where the Domino Theory can be taken seriously (such as in a Soviet invasion of a foreign land such as Afghanistan), it does not naturally follow that the Communist nation is planning yet more invasions. As to Taiwan, at least, an effort to reclaim this island of Chinese would not likely be followed by an a bloody nuclear confrontation over Japan. It is truly an internal issue, even more so than the wars between the Koreans, or between the two Vietnams.