On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:13:13 +0000 (UTC), (Brian Tung)
wrote, in part:
John Savard wrote:
But since Synta has a manufacturing plant in _Mainland_ China - I
believe that must be what you meant, since Taiwan _is_ part of China,

That's a pretty misleading way to put it. Taiwan in no way considers
itself to be part of anything larger--at least, not at the present
moment. It would only consider the proposition of becoming part of
a larger China if the mainland ceases what Taiwan considers to be
unreasonable aggression.

The mainland, of course, does consider Taiwan to be part of it. But
it's not quite the plain factual matter your words suggest.

As I noted, Taiwan is _not_ part of the People's Republic of China.

The People's Republic of China is not China. It's just that part of
China which happens to be under Communist control at the moment.

It certainly is possible for two sovereign states to exist within the
territory of one historic nation. Were Taiwan able to avail itself of
the protection of the UN Charter - which the Communists try to prevent,
so that they can accuse the U.S. of "aggression" if it defends the
freedom of the people currently living in Taiwan - it would still be
part of China, although definitely not part of Red China.

The U.S. missed an opportunity, after Tienanmen square, to reverse the
adoption of the Albanian proposal - and put the Republic of China back
in the U.N., as the holder China's seat on the Security Council. Just as
the U.N. began life as an alliance of the world's democracies against
Nazism, it should continue to be an active alliance of the world's
democratic nations against all forms of tyranny - not something that
admits the foxes to debate on how to guard the henhouse, like the failed
League of Nations.

An enlarged NATO that includes Israel, as well as former SEATO members
such as Japan, South Korea, and Australia, perhaps renamed the World
Treaty Organization, could perhaps replace the U.N. if that body instead
continues its slide into irrelevancy.

As to Taiwan, I would indeed like it to retake the mainland - except, of
course, acknowledging the independence and sovereignity of Tibet and
Uighuristan (also known as Sinkiang province) - so that all those
foreign Mandarin speakers can leave the island of Formosa yet remain
free, so that it can once again be a comfortable home to its rightful
Fukienese-speaking inhabitants.

For true freedom and equality, the ideal would be for China to become a
free trade area embracing sovereign states for each major dialect, so
that Cantonese speakers or Fukienese speakers could rise all the way to
the top in their own homelands without being subject to pressure to
learn other languages to which Mandarin speakers are not equally
subject.

John Savard
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