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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (120114)	11/20/2003 5:02:40 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A few months ago, I had a friend of mine from Taiwan visiting me. I asked him about the political situation between China and Taiwan. His answer was very easy to understand : Taiwanese people are the same as Chinese people. Eventually it will be 1 nation (like a few decades from now). The only reservation Taiwanese have at the moment, is to see the effects of Hong Kongs absorption into China, and if that does not work out smoothly, to figure out a way to avoid similar mistakes. Like Hong Kong, Taiwan has no desire to be swamped by millions of mainland Chinese when the infrastructure is not yet ready to accept them.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (120114)	11/20/2003 5:03:48 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not to worry, Maurice. Hu Jintao is just trying, in his heavy-handed way, to influence the upcoming elections in Taiwan. Like the U.S. in Iraq, China has "national interests at stake" in Taiwan, and feels they have the right to use "all available means" to "defend" their "rights" in their "sphere of influence". "Defend", in this case, means the opposite of what the dictionary says. The polite and civilized way to control distant lands, is to buy their politicians. That's what the oil and timber companies do in Alaska. Works much better than putting a nervous 19-year-old with an automatic weapon on every street-corner.