Is Taiwan seeking 'independence' or not? President Chen Shui-bian's New Year speech contained this little gem: "Taiwan is a part of the world. It is not a part of China.". The 'People's Republic' of China has got fearfully hot under the collar about that, although fighting words translated from Mandarin to English perhaps lose something in translation: "Chen intends to unreasonably restrict cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, worsen the atmosphere of cross-strait relations, and ruin the peaceful and stable development of cross-strait ties". More here
My preferred solution to all things Chinese would be a variation on the '97 plan cooked up bored financiers in the City, whereby Hong Kong made a reverse takeover of the 'People's Republic', while Tibet performed an MBO etc.
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James Higham had an excellent post yesterdya on the global strategy of China. Taiwan as ever is high on their list.
I don't know why; I visited on a business trip once, complete industrial hellhole full of ugly people eating terrible food.
Leave them to their own devices I say.
chinese "fighting talk" ?
That must be scarey to listen to.
They sound like the are threatening to kill you when they are saying
"hello and how are the kids?"
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