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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (55036)	10/28/2004 7:15:20 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Taiwan has been part of China for many centuries. As we all know most of the population came from Fujian and speak the Fujian dialect. When the Japanese invaders came in, in 1895, there was no possibility of decisions being made by China to be enforced in Taiwan yet I learned when I was a small boy in school that Taiwan was part of China and even the Japanese regarded it as such, planning to make it the first part of a new Japanese colony called China. Manchuria was the second part. Shanghai Beijing and Canton all became part of the third part. None the less, the Japanese occupation ended and Chejiang, Hebei, Guangdong were again under the control of China, though they had never been part of any other country. Even Chiang Kai-shek agreed that Taiwan was a part of China, when he ruled Taiwan. Both the US and the British have affirmed that the US is a separate country. There are similar arrangements agreed to democratically by both sides which formalize the relationship of Canada to the country where our queen lives. The Taiwan people did not vote to leave China and there has been no democratic decision in the mainland to exile Taiwan from China. I personally am confident that some day there won't be any Taiwan province leaders who say that Taiwan is an independent country. But, realistically, that will come when the mainland and Taiwan are similar economically and politically.