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Subject: Bush to UN - Taiwan is NOT Part of the PRC
Softwar    6/30/2008 10:54:32 AM
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/26/inside-the-ring-61437820/?page=3 Questioning one China The Bush administration has backed away from China's position on Taiwan by declaring in a diplomatic note to the United Nations that the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty remains unsettled and effectively stating that the island is not under Chinese sovereignty, as Beijing insists. A copy of the diplomatic note, from August, was obtained by the Heritage Foundation, and its disclosure is likely to upset China's government, which regards U.S. support for Taiwan as the most sensitive issue in U.S.-China relations. Administration diplomats and other U.S. officials who engage China are under constant pressure from Beijing to adhere to the so-called "one China policy" that in China's view implies formal U.S. recognition that democratic Taiwan is in reality under the sovereignty of communist China, like former colonies Hong Kong and Macao. The State Department, however, quietly challenged that policy in the summer of 2007 when it privately notified senior United Nations officials that "If the U.N. Secretariat insists on describing Taiwan as a part of the [Peoples Republic of China], or on using nomenclature for Taiwan that implies such status, the United States will be obliged to disassociate itself on a national basis from such position."
 
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YelliChink       6/30/2008 11:04:08 AM
Just how Carter put us in this bullcrap is completely out of my comprehension. If Carter had managed to maintain dual recognition, then all of us (the US, PRC and ROC) will be in much better shape.
 
Well, one Carter is bad enough for us, but Carter II is not far from reality. I guess we'll get screwed anyway.

 
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Zhang Fei       7/3/2008 2:05:24 PM
Just how Carter put us in this bullcrap is completely out of my comprehension.

Out of your comprehension? The same Carter who gave away the Panama Canal? The guy who eased the Shah out of office so that the Ayatollah Khomeini could take power? The fella who insisted that the Communist terrorist Robert Mugabe take power in Zimbabwe in spite of the fact that a democratically-elected black leader held power in then Rhodesia? The list of Carter foreign policy disasters is mind-boggling, never mind the domestic ones. Taiwan was just another ticket punch. If the Carter I know had had a second term, the Cold War might have swung the other way, and it might have been NATO being dismantled, and the Warsaw Pact expanding. Carter and Khomeini agreed on one thing - that America is the Great Satan.
 
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tigertony       7/3/2008 7:19:01 PM

Just how Carter put us in this bullcrap is completely out of my comprehension.




Out of your comprehension? The same Carter who gave away the Panama Canal? The guy who eased the Shah out of office so that the Ayatollah Khomeini could take power? The fella who insisted that the Communist terrorist Robert Mugabe take power in Zimbabwe in spite of the fact that a democratically-elected black leader held power in then Rhodesia? The list of Carter foreign policy disasters is mind-boggling, never mind the domestic ones. Taiwan was just another ticket punch. If the Carter I know had had a second term, the Cold War might have swung the other way, and it might have been NATO being dismantled, and the Warsaw Pact expanding. Carter and Khomeini agreed on one thing - that America is the Great Satan.


 
     Please stop making me laugh so hard or i will need my 1st Alert.
 
    
      I am no fan of peanut farmer Jimmy, but do you really think it was him who sold away Fortress Formosa?
 
 
     So i guess a man named Truman supported both KMT and Big Mac?
 
 
     And i suppose that Tricky "Dick" Nixon didn't go to China?
 
 
                                                              tigertony
 
 
    

 
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