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To: h0db who wrote (120750)	11/30/2003 9:34:14 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi h0db; Re: "So the economic interdependence is not symmetrical." If you go back and think carefully about how you generated your statistics, you will realize that by your definition "symmetrical" economic interdependence is impossible between any small nation and any large one. Certainly the trade figures for China and Taiwan far exceed any trade that existed between the US and Japan in 1940. But the most important item is the shared language and culture. Re: "... and increasingly the language of business and education on Taiwan is Taiwanese. ... Taiwan also uses traditional Chinese characters while the Mainland uses simplified characters introduced under Mao." Hong Kong never did speak Mandarin (much), and has always used traditional Chinese characters, but they had no trouble integrating into China. China has always had different dialects. What's shared is a grammar and a written language. As far as Mao's simplifications, they are also used in Singapore, so it's not like the West has never experienced them. Re: "In modern air combat between balanced adversaries, the side that wins may well be the one that does not run out of munitions first rather than aircraft." This is the heart of your military analysis of China versus Taiwan. It assumes that Taiwan and China are "balanced adversaries". They're not. The advantage is with Taiwan. -- Carl