Hi Stephen, > > Non-interference? I beg to differ. You might want to take that > up with a few > > Tibetans. > > Tibet is part of China, of course, and what China does with Tibet is all > "internal affairs" of China. :-/
Again, you might want to take that up with a few Tibetians. :-\ > > > I don't believe the Taiwanese are any happier about China's > > "meddling" either. > > Taiwan is absolutely considered part of China by the mainland Chinese > government, and United States arms going to Taiwan is the "meddling" > which is taking place. > And again, you might want to take that up with a few Taiwanese. HINT: Your opinion would NOT be considered a popular one. ;-) To clarify my previous somewhat muddled statement, the Nationalist Party headed by Chiang Kai-shek essentially took over the Taiwanese government when they fled the mainland back in the 40s. The takeover of the Taiwanese government by the ousted Nationalist party, by some accounts, was just as brutal as the draconian consolidation that was simultaneously going on in the mainland headed by Mao. The United States ended up supporting the Nationalist party on Taiwan because it served our own political and strategic interests to do so. We were most certainly "meddling" in Taiwan's internal affairs in that sense. But such are the stuff of political dramas and strange bed fellows. I would say that everyone who felt they had an invested interest in Taiwan was caught "meddling" in the island's internal affairs. We are not the only guilty party. Not by a long shot. I would recommend you talk to a real indigenous Taiwanese who was born and raised in Taiwan. It should not be misconstrued that the indigenous Tiawanese population consider themselves a part of the Mainland. I suspect the brutal takeover by the Nationalist party only confirmed their opinion of "Great Dragon's" incessant meddling. FWIW: My family lived in Taiwan back in the early 60 for approximately three years. My father was a production manager for Foremost Dairies, a San Francisco based company that supplied dairy products across the globe. Foremost had many plants across the Pacific as well. We supplied dairy products to Americans and their families living in Taiwan. This included a very large contingency of U.S. military based on the island, and a few CIA operatives and their families working there as well. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.Zazzle.com/orionworks
