Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Shirado
David, You have a simple view of China-Taiwan relations, but you are more of a computer specialist than an Asia one, so your deficiency is quite forgivable. I recently heard a story about policeman in Taiwan who is close to retiring. When he was asked what he planned to do when he retires, he

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-23 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Alex Shirado wrote: David, You have a simple view of China-Taiwan relations, but you are more of a computer specialist than an Asia one, so your deficiency is quite forgivable. I suspected as much. The problem with this is that I saw the "individual action

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Crisp
I think the attacks are far more likely to be launched by the Mainland folks against the Taiwanese rather than the other way around. The mainlanders want to destabilize Taiwan. Taiwan likes a stable mainland, because so many Taiwanese companies have set up manufacturing facilities in the mainland

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-22 Thread dmolnar
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Richard Crisp wrote: I think the attacks are far more likely to be launched by the Mainland folks against the Taiwanese rather than the other way around. The mainlanders want to destabilize Taiwan. Taiwan likes a stable mainland, because so many What intrigues me about