[pritchke]

Originally posted by MagiK: quote: Originally posted by pritchke: Yes, I agree North Korea is somewhat of a threat and should be dealt with by diplomacy. China isn't a threat unless you want to make it one. Al quada and other terrorist are real threats because fanatics can't be reasoned with the only thing they will answer to is a bullet between the eyes.

I suppose you missed all those attempts to do just that with North Korea in the 90's and how they lied time after time and turned the nuclear plants President Clinton gave them for their word to be good into weapons factories [img]smile.gif[/img] With that kind of diplomacy you would have fit right in with Custer at his last stand [img]smile.gif[/img] ...on the other hand...you would make an excellent officer of the UN Resolution Comittee>


I don't believe that any nation has recognized Taiwan as an independant state and China has in the past threatened all out nuclear war if the USA ever does. I think we should but the consequences would be too terrible if China actually nuked Taiwan..which they promised to do. China will accept no less than the complete re-integration of Taiwan....as for their trustworthyness look at Hong Kong....many a promise of governmental freedom was made andnot kept once the Brits turned it back over to them.

[/QUOTE]I really don't think China would nuke Taiwan to get it back as it would defeat the purpose. Plus I think they would prefer to avoid war not the same leader as it used to have. Hong Kong isn't doing to bad still as quite a bit of freedom considering it is now a part of China. China probably does not want to mess around to much with Hong Kong as it is an economic powerhouse in the region.

You have an agreement with Taiwan so you should keep it. Yes, the consequences would be too terrible if there was a war. Think of the opportunistic terrorist and North Korea taking advantage of a war between China and the US, to invade South Korea. Eventually the whole world would get dragged into a war weather they wanted to be involved in the US China thing. Very Bad!!! This is were diplomacy must rule out or we will be faced with WWIII.

[ 06-25-2004, 01:25 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]