rockdog
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Why do you think so? I was trying to convey that the PRC and ROC are extremely different governments in their outlooks, and thus would have had substantially different domestic and foreign policies. Well, that is the official stance, yes. But partly that is only because to renounce them would mean to send to Beijing a message that it was pursuing a truly separate identity -- and that Taiwan was nearing its declaration of full independence from the mainland. And that alone would dangerously increase tensions in the Taiwan strait.
And besides, as I stated, most Taiwanese don't really care about these old territory disputes, or even if they did, it still would not affect their views of those countries, or cause them to side with China against them. For example, the Diaoyutai dispute with the Japanese - they were able to sign a fisheries agreement years ago, and Japan remains Taiwan's favorite country regardless. Even the most nationalist pro-KMT members are not likely to support a war with either Japan or Mongolia.
ROC‘s official map is still this right?
I was a big fan of ROC‘s 蒙藏委员会 (Tibet - Mongolia committee),it claims almost all the things PRC dosen't claim. At this point, ROC is quite cute, it's "地图开疆,日记强国"
I respect 蒋经国 Chiang Ching-kuo, thought he is respectful. But when he faced Papa US, he became a lapdog ...Beginning in 1994, the Chinese sold 5,000 ring magnets, used in gas centrifuges for enriching uranium, to the laboratory of the infamous Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. Beijing also appears to have provided nuclear test data, more modern warhead designs, and plutonium technology for which there are no peaceful uses. China may even have tested a Pakistani device on its soil. Chinese help was crucial, extensive, and continuous. “If you subtract Chinese assistance from the Pakistani nuclear weapons program, there is no program,” says Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
China Is Behind the Nuclear Program in Iran. And North Korea. And Pakistan.
In November, immediately after the announcement that Iran had reached a deal with Western negotiators concerning its nuclear program, China’s former ambassador to Tehran, Hua Liming, made the case that Beijing—not the American Secretary of State John Kerry or the European Union envoy Catherine...www.tabletmag.com
The man who helped prevent a nuclear crisis
The man who helped prevent a nuclear crisis
In 1988 a military scientist from Taiwan sent his wife to Tokyo Disneyland and then defected to the US.
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