China urges Taiwan military to join hand together, to resist Pro-Independence Forces Options

[lilzz]

China urges Taiwan military: resist independence moves

Fri Dec 14, 3:49 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese military expert has urged Taiwan's military to resist moves towards independence, pressing the island's soldiers to "join hands" with mainland forces to avoid possible war.

China has claimed sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 and has vowed to bring the island back under mainland rule, by force if necessary.

The director of a research centre on Taiwan's military at the People's Liberation Army College of Military Sciences in Beijing, Wang Weixing, wrote in state media that Taiwan's armed forces traditionally favored stronger ties with the mainland.

Beijing fears that as it prepares to host the 2008 Olympic Games, independence-leaning Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will use a referendum and other steps to deepen the political divide between island and mainland.

Writing in the latest issue of Outlook Weekly, run by China's official Xinhua news agency, Wang said Taiwan's military could serve as a bulwark against "Taiwanese independence."

"Taiwan's military should also join hands with us to oppose Taiwan independence," Wang wrote in the article, reprinted by the China News Service on Friday.

Taiwan soldiers should "become a major force opposing separation of the motherland," Wang added.

The signal from the People's Liberation Army is part of a war of words over the island's future that Beijing has warned could escalate into real confrontation if Taiwan pursues outright independence.

Wang does not speak of mutiny or defection, but he urges Taiwan's soldiers to stand up against pro-independence forces.

"At this major turning-point in cross-Strait relations, the guns of the military forces on both sides must be used to defend national sovereignty and national interests," Wang wrote.

The two sides' officers should meet at the banquet table, not on the battlefield, he added.

Taiwan's efforts to win a seat at the United Nations have repeatedly failed, but Chen has vowed a referendum next year on whether to apply for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan. Legally, the island is still called the Republic of China.

(Reporting by Chris Buckley; editing by Roger Crabb)

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[SniperWZ]

I'd prefer the Taiwan military stays apolitical; would be a horrible precedent for a future united China...do not want to degenerate into an earlier era...

[lilzz]

I'd prefer the Taiwan military stays apolitical; would be a horrible precedent for a future united China...do not want to degenerate into an earlier era...

I'd prefer an all out mutiny. The KMT doctrines still strong in their military.

[Suijen]

"Join hands and-"

Gay.

[tj30]

Attention all mainland chinese and koreans, Let's all join hand in hand with the imperial japanese of WWII.
Attention all Jews, let's all join hands with Adolf Hitler and the nazi.
Attentions all blacks , lets all join hand in hand with the KKK grand dragons.

[northwestern_stu...]

aren't we a little...over the top

[babelone]

aren't we a little...over the top

Perhaps we are?

[Arash]

I want Taiwan to join China for one reason.

The US will lose so much power in the region it's not even funny!

Taiwan is a US puppet.

[babelone]

I want Taiwan to join China for one reason.

The US will lose so much power in the region it's not even funny!

Taiwan is a US puppet.

I would hate to see history repeated, but I'd live to visit China. There is meant to be some province of Eternal Springtime in the southern part of China north of Laos, but I can't remember if it was called Yunnan or Sunnan (Sunan is my gf name). I know that it isn't Kansas anymore, Toto.

I see a "sort-of" Chinese border between N & S Korea, and from what little "Brother Fish" reading I have on those Far East places, that is quite amicable.

I am also happy to wear a t-shirt made in China just as much as my IBM VDU made in Taiwan, but I added the photo of the pretty-girls for a good reason. One reason is to let Taiwan have a seat on the UN, for the benefit of the planet, as an evolutionary side-effect of China, if it keeps the peace, but I think those young ladies want us to respect Taiwanese culture.

<I hope I'm not too political WMHO, but that beautiful photo was published on Asia News Network Network months ago. Taiwan is China's first cousin, but not in the same place twice>

<edited typo + added familial innuendo, Jerry Lee Lewis style - without typo, not really worth it>





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Sorry. I missed the point I meant to say.

The US had England once, and then Australia, like Australia has Britain and New Zealand. I know so little about the difference between China and Taiwan, but in the photo, there is something in the way they move that tells me Taiwan will prefer to be an independent ally of China, than a slave.

Basically, I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

This post has been edited by babelone: Dec 19 2007, 02:47 AM

[lilzz]

Attention all mainland chinese and koreans, Let's all join hand in hand with the imperial japanese of WWII.
Attention all Jews, let's all join hands with Adolf Hitler and the nazi.
Attentions all blacks , lets all join hand in hand with the KKK grand dragons.

In this case, only chineses join hand /w ethnic chineses, which by all account should be quite reasonable. You are exaggerating.

[Red Fox Ace]

In this case, only chineses join hand /w ethnic chineses, which by all account should be quite reasonable. You are exaggerating.

It is technically a civil war, you know.

[Suijen]

The CCP really just needs to shut up about Taiwan.

[babelone]

The CCP really just needs to shut up about Taiwan.

Yes Suijen, and I hope not to misconstrue your impetus, but like I'd think my ancestors would have about their homes, like Mandela, like, Gandhi, and like The Dalai Lama, it is time for the world to shut up and let the people of Taiwan (PRT?) decide how they would prefer to be viewed in the eyes of the United Nations.

Other empires have risen and fallen, and China should give way to Taiwan while they refrain from invasion of Chinese Shores.

I don't mean disrespect to China, but get your accountants to google Lebanon for homework.


<edit: Sorry, PRT is a ficticious anagram of mine, not Taiwan's>


<#2+3: typo Dalai Lama>







I rest my case.



This post has been edited by babelone: Dec 21 2007, 03:54 AM

[master_fx]

cant wait till BBC reports the communism invasion on taiwan after 60 years of cold war.....

This post has been edited by master_fx: Dec 22 2007, 11:16 AM

[Captainx]

The Taiwanese military if having any guts should arrest this Chen Shuibin monkey and declare marshell law.

Taiwanese politicans are a total disgrace to the Chinese people.