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To: TobagoJack who wrote (27372)	1/6/2008 3:25:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219778

Do you mean respect, or fear? <kinship must be taught to respect kinship, else no kinship > Whichever you mean, it's the counsel of racism. 1 billion Chinese aren't "kin". You are kidding yourself if you think so. Also, your idea of inevitability in human affairs compared with sun coming up tomorrow is wildly awry. Which amuses me because you have previously said that predictions are impossible. Yet you can predict the inevitable about the imponderable. In which case you either believe it and are in trouble, or don't believe it and are just playing with words. When accidents last for over half a century in the case of Taiwan and hundreds of years in the case of China, they are not really accidents so much as trends. If Taiwan could stay separate for half a century, there isn't a particular reason than it can't be for 1000 years, except that the human rabble morphs around all over the place in such time periods so the chances of "no change" for that time are near zero. Vietnam isn't Taiwan. Now isn't then. China now is different from China then. Everything is different. <further, one 50% of taiwan do not agree with the other 50%, and as time and economics do the necessary work, the contradictions will sharpen > Can we say the same for China? Giggle, snicker ... yes, yes, I know they are supposed to be all mindless clones thinking the same thing so elections are pointless. But from what I saw on a short visit, not everyone seemed like a commie zombie, which is not very surprising. If "reunification" is such a done deal, how come the Taiwanese are puzzled despite being up close and personal, wasting their money on Patriot missiles and the like? Let us wait and watch. Perhaps your racist theories are right. I am not going to bet that they are. Mqurice