maybe i've become a geopolitics geek, but i found this letter to the economist incredibly funny. it was in response to their half-serious suggestion [1] a couple of weeks ago that belgium should dismantle itself.
Sir, Another article mentions the problems of a "doomed attempt" by the Taiwanese to join the United Nations as "Taiwan" rather than the "Republic of China", the name under which they lost their seat in 1971. If the praline divorce [between belgium's flanders and wallonia] does happen, couldn't Taiwan join the UN as "Belgium"? Jerry Rose, Glendale, Arizona -rishab 1. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9767681
