The draft law states they will seek to reunify Taiwan to China peacefully...

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Originally posted by Fidel:
Taiwan's anti-communist league funded right wing death squads in Latin America for years, too. Peasants who could carry the wealth of the bank of China over mountains no farther were ordered shot to death by Chiang's Kuomintang. Maoists who removed their red scarves and were found with traces of red on their necks were also executed on the spot.

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That was 50 years ago. You have to update your analysis a bit.

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Originally posted by mimsy:

That was 50 years ago. You have to update your analysis a bit.

Yeah, it's pretty much just a loud, international reiteration of what has been the standing policy for years.

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Ok, today, the idiots call themselves, Spector, I mean, "The World League for Freedom and Democracy. And you're right, they're fascist agenda hasn't changed since 1966.

[ 15 March 2005: Message edited by: Fidel ]

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Originally posted by sheik yerbouti:
i think taiwan are in lots of trouble if china ever invaded. i can't see anyone starting a war over them with china.

however i think it is equally unlikely china would have the cajones to invade taiwan. there would be severe repercussions, if not outright war.

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It's sad that you don't see what a danger to the world the Chinese state has become. It will pretty much vault the US in about a generation, but the reprocutions will be awful.

I have a private lesson over here with an officer in the R.O.C. military who will be strolling through the halls of the Pentagon as a liasion officer in a couple of months. Thankfully (for me), he's a military "dove", and shares many of the same viewpoints on "W's" reign that I do.

He figures that the anti-secession law is mostly just for show, in order to please Hawkish members in the CCP. Then again, he also worries that the ASL could be used by these Hawks (still small but vocal minority within the party) to launch a first strike against the island.

Currently, he estimated that China has ~1500 conventional ballastic (they admit ~700) missles pointed at stategic targets throughout the Island. Two, three at most would take out Taiwan's largest military airport. Needless to say, he ain't much of a fan of Chen's high profile tactics, like most Taiwense, they'd happily go along with the status quo if that meant perpetual peace.

[ 30 March 2005: Message edited by: Panama Jack ]

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Originally posted by Vigilante:
So Fidel, are the generation of taiwanese today fascists? It seems many people on that island want nothing to do with Red Fascists. Do you want people on that island to die and be bombed into accepting those shighty vanguardist capitalists?

It's sad that you don't see what a danger to the world the Chinese state has become. It will pretty much vault the US in about a generation, but the reprocutions will be awful.

Let's work to end all empires once and for all.

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The U.S. is still the biggest threat militarily, As the British spent wantonly on military at annual rates of twice it's nearest enemies combined, maintaining that military advantage and empire eventually became less and less affordable. The U.S. still considers China and Russia to be potential hostile nations and is why they American's attempt to enforce an arms embargo of China with our European neighbors. Everyone knows that this cold war stuff was never about real threats moreso than it was a shakedown of the American taxpayers for corporate welfare payments to the military industrial complex.

China's experiment in market socialism is becoming a resounding success for a country where desperately poor peasants were being born in rice paddies and living to the ripe old age of 30-35 until Mao changed the course of Chinese history.

Market socialism has been around for several decades. It's described in detail by Karl Polanyi in his book from the 1930's, "The Great Transformation." The general area of Asia was the largest market in the world for a long time. It's poised to regain that status within the next couple of decades. We have to remember that laissez-faire capitalism was saved by Keynesianism, or socialism-lite. Theirs became an economic powerhouse because of massive interventionism in the economy. Even as political conservatism has whittled away at American social democracy since the early 1980's, the model that creates roughly half of the wealth in the US is still due to taxpayer spending on social amenities and services for the middle and working classes: housing programs, pensions that keep the elderly from poverty, public education and, yes, health care, although private-for-profit delivery of health care in the US has made it the most expensive system in the world. The US is not even a real model for capitalism as laissez-faire was rejected by the world over after a 30 year experiment proved disasterous in 1929.

As the remnants of New Deal socialism in the States are hacked away and handed off to private enterprising capitalists, the system will eventually go bankrupt. Socialism is the future.

[ 30 March 2005: Message edited by: Fidel ]