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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (32)	7/16/2001 2:24:32 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41

Then why does Bejing consider so attractive that they are willing to risk regional war over the island? For them, controlling their own strategic region is far more important than an industry undergoing worldwide recession. It is also important for them to control Himalayas to fend off the Indians with military advantages. Don't worry about the situation in Taiwan. They won't declare independence. I guess the current Prez could get defeated in the next election, since he is no longer popular anymore. It's also an alternative political system that scares the begeezus out of the communists because it represents the success that has eluded the communists for the past 50 years. Yes, that's why I think the political system in China is reforming by the means of free markets and capitalism. It is unfortunate that totalitarism still exists to fend off foreign military threats. No property rights. No economic freedom. Not at all. My relatives own houses in mainland. You can own a house in Shanghai too ... I believe the price is rising ... metropolis-sh.com Many German businessmen in China, in fact, own houses and live in a place called QingDao, where you would find the place looked like Germany in the east ... very beautiful. The mid-east is screwed up because it consists of artificial states and kingdoms carved out of the former Ottoman Empire. I don't know who screwed up who. But certainly, the place and the people have been divided and conquered by foreigners, because of religions. I guess the conflict is more about the human wave of other people colliding with the human wave of the local people. The Arabs simply didn't understand the wave theory of human beings and its Maxwell's equations. Too bad... Q