On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Brett Coster wrote: > > Behalf Of Marvin Long, Jr. > > > > Taiwan's Chinese, Alberto, and AFAIK China's never launched a major > > offensive against the US. <quack> > > > Of course, what Alberto meant to type was "Okinawa".
In which case the US has a military base there, which has grown increasingly unwelcome over the years, but the US has never declared Okinawa a state independent from Japan, and in any event, certainly never did so before Pearl Harbor. Marvin Long Austin, Texas
