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To: TimF who wrote (9951)	10/11/2001 1:19:43 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

I think your right when you state that an invasion of Taiwan from the PRC is not likely. Frankly speaking, I would be a little worried when majority of Taiwan people really want independence so badly. But the KMT themselves say today that independence for Taiwan is a dead end. Well, let's face some possibilities. For instance, in case Taiwanese declare Taiwan as a country, the border defined between the mainland and Taiwan could become vague, considering the fact that a couple of very small islands, with not much residents, sitting just 1 mile off the mainland coast are belonged to Taiwan. Those islands make the PRC very worried, because the military buildup of Taiwan could be there just 1 mile off the mainland. IF PRC wants to occupy those very small islands by force, they should have done it long time ago. And also in the mainland side of the coast, the Taiwanese stationary troops can see several 5-story red Chinese characters by PRC, saying "Chinese don't fight Chinese, Be united." ... Whether or not there's a full-scale operation toward the main island really is out of question, with the navy force PRC has.

To: TimF who wrote (9951)	6/8/2005 9:07:08 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Report: China's new bid to gag Web Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Posted: 1:14 AM EDT (0514 GMT) BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China is to close unregistered China-based domestic Web sites and blogs, a media watchdog said, as the government tightens its grip on the Internet. Popular domestic Web portals are already pressured not to publish sensitive news and voluntarily patrol chatrooms and other areas of their sites for "politically incorrect" statements and delete them. Beijing announced in March that every China-based Web site now had to register and provide complete information on its organizers by June 30 or face being declared illegal, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders group said in a statement seen on Tuesday. "The plan is all the more worrying as the government has also revealed that it has a new system for monitoring sites in real time and spotting those that fail to comply," Reporters Without Borders said. "This decision will enable those in power to control online news and information much more effectively." Around three-quarters of domestic Web sites had complied with the registration orders, Reporters Without Borders quoted official Chinese figures as saying. A report released by the OpenNet Initiative in April called China the world's leading censor of the Internet and said the government employed thousands of officials and private citizens to monitor and control online content. But for all of Beijing's efforts to rein in the medium, pockets of free speech have appeared in Internet chatrooms and blogs. "The authorities also hope to push the most outspoken online sites to migrate abroad, where they will become inaccessible to those inside China because of the Chinese filtering systems," Reporters Without Borders said. Beijing regularly blocks access to some foreign Web pages, including sites run by Chinese dissidents living in exile abroad. China is the world's second-largest Internet market, with about 100 million users and the number is growing. It is also the world's largest jailer of cyber dissidents, having detained more than 60 people for expressing their views online, according to a Reporters Without Borders report from last June.