Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

My thoughts on the Taiwan legislative elections

Taiwan's pro-independence parties have suffered an upset defeat in legislative elections.

While the result is likely to please China's leaders, who are angry about the island's drift away from Beijing's sacred goal of unification the outcome is most probably going to irritate Bush.

The United States is at war with Beijing and cites China as the number one threat. #msg-3379438

Clearly, ending North Korea's nuclear crisis or even eliminating "evil" is not the ultimate goal of the US. What the US really wants, and is exploiting the North Korea "crisis" to achieve, is to deploy sufficient military forces and resources in the western Pacific (especially close to Taiwan) so as to encourage Taiwan independence, thereby checking China's growth as a power that might compete with the US. Not long ago, the US and Japan were talking about using Japan's Shimoji Island as a military base. Only about 200 miles from Taiwan, Shimoji has a "runway capable of safely handling a fully loaded F-15C fighter jet", observed James Brooke in the New York Times.

If some day Taiwan becomes independent (or rather the 51st US state), it would not surprise the world. Yet it would reduce China to a state that may never be able to challenge the US. If that day comes, obviously the US should be grateful to North Korea, for it has created a perfect smokescreen for the US to be well positioned to diminish China.
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To this end Taiwan intends to build a "nuclear test ground" or "missile base".
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Ordinary Americans do not seem to support Taiwanese independence either. A recent poll by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) suggests that 61% of the respondents were opposed to US military involvement in a People's Republic of China-Taiwan conflict, and only 33% would support sending troops to defend the island. If a conflict were initiated by Taiwan, probably even fewer Americans would want to shed their blood to defend an independent Taiwan.
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61% of the respondents were opposed to US military involvement in a People's Republic of China-Taiwan conflict. What is not being considered is that Taiwan is but part of the issue in the United States war with Beijing.

China objects to Bush’s policies in the Asia-Pacific region. Bush will lead us into a war with China we cannot win irregardless of Taiwan. The American people in reelecting Bush did not do their homework. China’s neighborhood does not include only Taiwan.

According to a Chinese white paper, Beijing sees “new negative developments” in the Asia-Pacific region. These include a strengthening US military presence and bilateral military alliances in China’s neighbourhood, and US development of a theatre missile defence system and plans to deploy it in Asia. “The Taiwan Straits situation is complicated and grim,” the white paper states.
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Beyond the ‘neighborhood’ issue lurks the problem that Bush intends to control all oil throughout the world in an effort to bring China to its knees. This is not about securing needed supplies of oil and gas for the United States this is about attempting to control the world through want of energy.

Ultimately China and others will fight. The world will revolt, Bush leaves no choice. Taiwan is not the sole issue, never has been.

In a world that runs on oil, the nation that controls the flow of oil has great strategic power. U.S. policy-makers want leverage over the economies of competitors -- Western Europe, Japan and China -- that are more dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
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The U.S. is not interested in Caspian oil to supply its own internal industry. The U.S. is grabbing for control of the Caspian oil fields because other countries need this oil--and because the U.S. wants to control them. Other imperialist rivals--including Germany and Japan--are "energy poor" and need access to oilfields outside their borders. Most Third World countries are heavily dependent on imported oil.
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-Am