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How do you think about China and Taiwan? |
Travel Info How do you think about China and Taiwan? Travel Tips Mainland China calls Taiwan a province of China. They have no military presence there but I suspect it will not be long before they install their army in Taiwan. President Chen Shui-bian had wanted to arouse the people of Taiwan to vote for independence from China but it didn't happen. Now that his wife has been implicated in a huge corruption scandle, it seems the tide is turning and the people will finally accept a peaceful reuniting with China. The Beijing government permitted air flights between mainland and Taiwan for the first time this February for family members to reunite during Spring Festival. Nonetheless, it seems odd to call it a reuniting since mainland China has never had a good grip on Taiwan. Millions of Chinese people have moved to the island in the last hundred years or so, overwhelming the local people who are of polynesian ancestry. From the 17th century until now, the Dutch, Chinese and Japanese have occupied Taiwan at different times. None of these invaders ever really had a firm government on the island so when China got Japan to sign over Taiwan to them after Japan's defeat by the U.S. in 1945, it seemed a bit indirect at best since Japan never really controlled Taiwan. At no time in its history has Taiwan acted in agreement with mainland China in trade, military development, economy or government. They even use different currency (Taiwan dollars). The U.S. has always been the smiling guard dog in the relationship since 1945 but since President Clinton, the U.S. says they support China's policy of claim to Taiwan. At the same time, the U.S. sells high-tech military weapons to Taiwan that we would not dare sell to mainland China and complains to China about their massive build-up of the military which China clearly states is to "maintain the one-China policy". This clearly puts the U.S. and China in an arms race that will probably end with the U.S. giving up as they have spent too much on wars in the Middle-East in recent years. Ironically, a failure of the U.S. economy could lead to a huge recession in China since the U.S. is the largest consumer of Chinese goods. To try to counter this, China is cutivating "quasi-colonial" relations (building many hospitals, schools, hydro-electric projects and bridges) with many African nations and increasing trade with the European Union. That might help quite a lot to buffer their economy from a depression in the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. will be in no position to stop China from intervening in African affairs to exploit the huge natural resources there that can feed the gigantic manufacturing industries of China. After that scenario, China will be by far the world's only superpower with Japan and Germany towering over the U.S. By the way, many Taiwanese people can speak "Mandarin" but they usually speak a Chinese-Taiwanese dialect that is mostly unintelligible to mainlanders. Their written characters also are not standard, simplified Chinese so most mainlanders cannot read a Taiwan newspaper. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/history_of_... Other Travel Tips with my brain. THINK WITH WHAT DUDE? I need money!!! So I can go there They are divided by a sea both countries speak mandarin? |
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