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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (9498)	2/24/2000 8:11:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

Ron and DMA beat me to the good points. You didn't want to talk about them in any coherent fashion, preferring instead to stick to the emotion you seem to find so gratifying. By the way, when you quoted me you omitted a rather relevant portion. I did say that I expect a peaceful reunification. I also said that I expect that when it occurs China will no longer be Communist. I suspect that China will be no more than nominally Communist within a decade, and not even nominally Communist within a decade after that. Unless, of course, the hardliners in Washington force the US into doing exactly what the hardliners in Beijing want us to do. Polarization serves the hardliners on both sides. The worst thing we could do for China's reformers would be to keep China out of the WTO. Have you not grasped by now that it is politically impossible for a Chinese politician to give in to a public American ultimatum? That every concession, as Ron correctly points out, must be concealed in a welter of bluster? That publicly insisting on a concession may play beautifully in Peoria, but virtually guarantees that the concession will not be granted?