QUOTE (conflicker @ May 29 2009, 03:47 PM)

The opinions of the Mainland Chinese and the USA is only revelevant opinions that exists in the Taiwan strait. Please do yourself a big favor and visit Mainland China. Two weeks ago, I saw and visit the wonderful cities of Xiamen, Guangzhou, and saw with my very own eyes, that the Mainland Chinese are becoming citizens with mentality of Hong Kongers, Tokyo, New Yorkers. They are only interested in making money, buying nice houses, nice cars, trendy new clothing, and new pop culture in Asia. Mainland Chinese are very nice to Taiwan visitor like myself, even though I purposely openly spoke that I favor DPP, just to see what their reaction was. They continue to be really nice to me, I was shocked. In fact, 75 percent of the didn't even know the political parties that make up Taiwan. Simply because it is just not important to them.
As I said before, I don't care what the Chinese people feel. I don't care if they support reunification, support Taiwanese independence, or don't have an opinion.
The only thing that matters is what the Chinese government feels.
Frankly, I don't care if you went to Xiamen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Timbuktu, Constantinople, and Sodom and Gomorra. The fact that 75% of the people you talked to didn't even know about Taiwan's political parties are in the CPC's interests. They don't want the people knowing too much about Taiwan.
QUOTE (conflicker @ May 29 2009, 03:47 PM)

Yes, to answer your question regarding Beijing's military modernization. All countries modernize their military. Even the tiny country of England and France have aircraft carriers. China does the same , so what?! what is your point?
My point is that the Chinese navy will soon be outflankin Taiwan. Taiwan will be surrounded. Even now, China's best attack is a frontal one, with Taiwan's east coast being spared of attack. That won't be the case in a decade.
QUOTE (conflicker @ May 29 2009, 03:47 PM)

The south China sea is very rich in oil, natural gas and there is alot of shipping lanes there, major power like China , japan and usa all have large military stations there. I think China is just using decades old proprganda of Taiwan to justify military build up in the South China seas. Hey, how else do you think communist dictators are going to continue to stay in power if they don't repeat decades old proprganda?!!
I'm sorry...what military stations do Japan and America have in the South China Sea?
And China isn't your typical communist country. If you think so, you're the one that's greatly uninformed about the situation. You mentioned yourself that the people care only about shopping and the latest trends. That isn't usual in your typical communist country.
QUOTE (conflicker @ May 29 2009, 03:47 PM)

The word unification is a thing of the past. It is very 1980's of you. Again, you CCL1 seems to be obcessed with Taiwan, I can tell you right now, Taiwan is just a small island, no one cares much about it, certainly not the mainland chinese . You wonder why Taiwan voted kmt last time, I think Taiwan is going to vote DPP in two years, since Kmt flat out lied and can't do nothing about the economy. The Taiwan residents is going to vote DPP, and the way Chen is jailed it reminded Taiwanese the repressions of the kmt in 1960's. Chen will be the poster boy as a myater. Since kmt took billions of political contributions, and only chen of DPP was jailed and not the kmt. The slogan of Taiwan for Taiwanese will be used in the next election. And the DPP will quickly win.
I don't care if unification is a word of the past. I love using it.
You greatly underestimate the value of Taiwan. It's not just a small island. If you really think so, speak to your typical Taiwanese citizen, and they'll tell you how wrong you are.
Also I don't wonder why the KMT won. I know why they won. And the KMT can do wonders for the economy. Taiwan became one of the Asian tigers under the KMT government in the 60s to 80s. Had it not been for the global economic meltdown that no one could have avoided, the KMT would be doing well now, or at least maintain the growth that the DPP government had.
Chen won't be a martyr. He stole billions from the Taiwanese people, as did his wife.
If the DPP wins, then they win. That's how it goes. But Ma still has another few years to go. With the global recession ending later this year or early to mid next year, Ma will have lots of time to make the Taiwanese economy grow again and people might forget about the recession.
Then he can enact laws to make it easier for the Chinese to invest in Taiwan. I love it!!!
QUOTE (conflicker @ May 29 2009, 03:47 PM)

Mainland China is going to become as modern and beautiful as HK, and Japan, and NY. They have already ignored and forgotten KMT. How will the kmt win future elections?? What other lies and dirty tricks will the kmt pull? Kmt is a shameless little worm. kmt would steal from an old lady and lie on his mother's grave just to win elections in Tawian. one sad political party.
Yeah, I agree with you. Both the KMT and DPP are idiots. Both are sad political parties. China should just take over Taiwan and get rid of those two dumb parties.