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To: michael97123 who wrote (159780)	3/29/2005 2:05:48 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Chinese economic growth has created a vortex of resource use that is sustainable only if China can secure resources from other countries -- just as we are dependent on other countries for strategic resources such as oil. Chinese foreign policy is driven as much as anything else by the need to gain secure access to resources. Our involvement in Iraq serves that purpose for us -- although arguably it has not served us well. Rather than invade other countries, China has gone the "make friends" route -- a far more effective approach and one we used to use. Our "threaten them into submission" approach has burned many of our old bridges and leaves the field open to China -- our loss is their gain in this case. Our approach is short term and ideological, theirs is long term and practical. We will only know the price of these mis-steps on our part in the long run.

To: michael97123 who wrote (159780)	3/29/2005 4:31:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Taiwan is part of china, recent legislation is worrisome.> While that's the commonly expressed idea, it's not true in any practical sense and Taiwanese generally seem to want to row their own boat, and steer it. There's no law of gravity or anti-devolutionary law of the universe that says Taiwan is, or should be, part of Hu Jintao's megalomaniac rule. Taiwan's geopolitical associations in 2020 are still to be determined. Let's hope Hu Jintao's threatening gang don't create a lot of dead people and disrupted economic processes in the process. With a bit of luck, Taiwanese Democratic Green will spread peaceably across China, rather than China's military marauders spreading bloodily across Taiwan. The USSR has split up, the Iron Curtain gone, Georgia, Lebanon and right there on the western border of China, street revolutions have taken place. Taiwanese are waving green. Will Hu Jintao make green in China illegal? That would be hilarious. Mqurice