Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Where the word "sharp" means being a purely hypocritical tool:
Rice Has Sharp Words for Taiwan, as Gates Does for China
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued an unusually sharp rebuke to Taiwan, pointedly calling its planned referendum on United Nations membership “provocative.”
So a referendum on calling Taiwan what it is and ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
I love reading Michael Turton's blog, and I admire both the volume and the quality of his posts on Taiwan and the jostling of this wonderful little place between the political whims of two giants, China and the USA.
In response to the Kitty Hawk debacle, he posts something about a ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Hu Jintao has issued a brilliant edition to what I call "Sweet & Sour" - the kind of rhetoric that comes out of the PRC that sounds sweet and flowery at first glance, but which is a sour and distasteful statement under the hood:
"We would like to make a solemn ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Check out this headline:
China says it opposes threatening Iran with war
Now check this out:
China renews Taiwan threat of war
Or this:
China Threatens War Escalation Over Bush Handshake
Or this:
China Threatens War With Taiwan by 2008
Maybe if China backs off on saber-rattling Taiwan then we can talk about your Iran concerns...
UPDATE: It ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Michael Turton makes an excellent point: Why is it that the United States will rebuke Taiwan for supposedly violating the status quo between them and China by asserting their sovereignty with things I would consider entirely peaceful - i.e. requesting Taiwan be admitted into the United Nations or the World ...
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