Taiwanese president declares Taiwan must seek independence

Words are meaningless in the realm of international politics? Do you need rehab?

Sure the PRC has been adding missiles. Lots of missiles. But you cannot deny the fact that the usage of these missiles are dependent solely on the political objective of PRC. In this context, nothing changes because PRC never shifted its political objective.

SampanViking said:

Stock markets wobble, Greenspan warns of recession and suddenly up springs Chen using the "I" word.

Maybe Chen is trying to use economic blackmail of some sort, by trying to claim he can influence global markets or something.

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Sampan, I'm surprised you'd even suggest such a thing, given how irrational the logic required in coming to that conclusion is.



There's absolutely no mention of Taiwan in there at all. World markets have been jittery recently due to fears over the US economy. The only way Taiwan could make an impact is if there were a UDI and/or China announced military action.

Either way hw will have mightily p'd off Washington, who would rather things stay calm right now.

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Maybe, but then again the State Department is fairly hypocritical.

President Chen makes a speech? Oh my God, how terrible.

China deploys approaching 1,000 missiles within range of Taiwan, Chinese leaders make their own provocative speeches, China generally threatens Taiwan's ability to look after itself.......... Nah, according to the State Department there's nothing wrong with that.