Quote Originally Posted by Torog
Howdy Encatuse,

Once again,thanx for your kind words..I believe that there ain't no call for emotional,childish temper tantrums or personal insults,when trying to figure out how we feel about things and where we stand on the issues..it all boils down to developing the ability to agree to disagree..without resorting to insults and profanity.

Have a good one...(sweet dreams ! don't let the bed bugs bite !)
It irks me to say it, but sometimes you're right, though I don't agree with the way you say it...

I think uderstanding Chinese history is key to understanding this issue as well. Since China ever came in contact with the west, the chinese have been continuously (there's no toher way to say it) buttfucked by western powers, and now they finally have to opportunity to flex their new-found muscles. IMO, it's a little similar to what the US was doing right after the Civil War, with the Spanish-American War, and the Philippines, and Central America.

Obviously, this is a scary development, and a war with China would certainly spell disaster for the entire world, but regardless of how the Taiwanese feel, the Chinese have always claimed the island as their own, and I think they are hell-bent on demonstrating their power.

I guess dipllomacy would be the answer, and regardless of their decision to fight over Taiwan if necessary, the rest of the world should do its utmost to avoid any kind of armed conflict, covert or overt, because it can escalate very quickly.

You gotta hand it to the Chinese though, they have a hell of sense of timing... Right when anti-war sentiment is at an all-time high, they go and do something like this, knowing that the division which runs across the entire world will only help them in their plans.

It has nothing to do, IMHO, with them being communist. Taiwan is a island which they have claimed for thousands of years, and their relationship has always been strained. It's a shame it had to come to this...