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2005-08-25 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-25 01:36|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The signal this is gonna send to the US people and Congress here is Taiwan is not ready to defend its own freedom and is depending on having a US "blank check" to basically come and defend them no matter the circumstances. I suspect someone is gonna get this thrown back into their faces rather badly.

Posted by Valentine 2005-08-25 02:56|| 2005-08-25 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 As long as thousands and thousands (maybe even millions) of American servicement are not killed by IMI uavs, I'm content.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-08-25 03:26|| 2005-08-25 03:26|| Front Page Top

#3 ... part of a political maneuver aimed at getting the opposition-controlled legislature to pass the long-delayed package.

That does not sound like unwillingness to 'defend their own freedom'. They are just moving the money from one pile to another.

Posted by SteveS 2005-08-25 10:08|| 2005-08-25 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually Steve its partisan politics at work to trump a bit of national security (in this case Taiwans) again. The White House and some Congress members already warned there would be a backlash if this happened.

Posted by Valentine 2005-08-25 12:08|| 2005-08-25 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 "saying it will spark an arms race with rival China"

Is this a serious comment? Damm their LLL's are freekin dummer than ours. Our LLL's may not let us use the military but at least they allow us to have one. China has been steadily raising their military budget popping out subs huge numbers or missles modernization of old stuff hell even working on a carrier the Volakg. I think the "arms race" already started without them.

Posted by C-Low 2005-08-25 12:52|| 2005-08-25 12:52|| Front Page Top

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