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Old 12-09-2003, 08:57 PM   #8 (permalink)
wilbjammin
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Taiwan is a funny circumstance. I don't know what to think, it basically has served as the nationalist refuge from the revolution. They really are two very different places because of the differences between government philosophies, yet China isn't exactly the same Maoist state that it used to be, and the nationalists aren't exactly the same as they used to be. It just shows how grudges can be held for a long time. I don't think I'd be particularly excited to cooperate with a nation that is pointing a bunch of missiles at me. A united China/Taiwan would have more of a look of cooperation rather than domination, I'd think. It kinda reminds me of our relationship with Cuba in a way. Sometimes holding grudges really creates a good political mechanism for the ruling party... opposition to something external can create order, I guess.
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