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2007-09-20 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2007-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 TAIWAN's options remains the same - can either unilater declare full independence and sovereignty from China, as suppor by POPULAR REFERENDUM; OR it can over time await the winner of the US-China competition for domination of the Pacific.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-20 01:13|| 2007-09-20 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Lovely! Angola, LAO PDR, Rwanda, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe.... all welcome, but not a democratically elected government such as Taiwan?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-20 03:17|| 2007-09-20 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 The UN. Home to dictators, communists and tyrants.

Free nations need not apply.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-09-20 07:54|| 2007-09-20 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 This would be the same Republic of China (Taiwan) which was a founding member of the United Nations.

We. Have. To. Stop. Paying. For. This. Evil.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-20 09:07|| 2007-09-20 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 This would be the same Republic of China (Taiwan) which was a founding member of the United Nations

Well, sort of. It was the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek. Not much closer to a republic than many of the aforementioned states. They kept the government and 'elected' officials from the mainland in power for decades well after every one else knew they weren't going home.* Open 'democratic' elections took a lot longer before you could reasonable classify it as a 'Republic'. However, unlike most of the 'aforementioned' regimes, it did successfully transition to a democratic structure.

*And the island was just 'liberated' from Japan who'd occupied it since the Sino-Japanese War of the prior century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-20 09:26|| 2007-09-20 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Wouldn't want to have a prosperous, democratic Asian economic powerhouse hanging around making so many of the other members look like the perennial world-class losers they are. Can't have that, now can we?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-20 09:50|| 2007-09-20 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 About 3/4 of the folks in Taiwan are happy that it was not granted under the current Prez.
They didn't want to hear him crowing about it for decades.

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-20 10:17|| 2007-09-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Taiwan's prez that is.

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-20 10:18|| 2007-09-20 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 We. Have. To. Stop. Paying. For. This. Evil.

Guillani seems to have a position on just about everything--has he made a stand about the UN yet?

Posted by Crusader 2007-09-20 12:40|| 2007-09-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Wan't Giuliani the one who said "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"?

Posted by SteveS 2007-09-20 13:10|| 2007-09-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Wasn't that the Giuliani with a beard?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-20 14:20|| 2007-09-20 14:20|| Front Page Top

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