From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!dsd!lcs@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: John Wayne woule never have ...
Article-I.D.: dsd.131
Posted: Wed Sep  1 13:04:47 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 05:07:38 1982
References: ihuxq.153


This is a reply to both Reza and one of the ucbcad!UNKNOWNs. I shall dispute
their viewpoints with some historical background on the subject which I think
both of them are ignorant of.

(1) "Red China has been continuously shelling the uninhabited part of Taiwan
     since 1949" (by Reza)

    You have yet to develop a 100-mile range artillery for them to use. Do
    not forget the existence of the Taiwan Channel which also makes the
    "take-over" job not as easy as you may think it might be.

(2) US involvements in the Chinese civil war.

    The US involvements in the war started long before a lot of American
    think it did.
   
    The Yalta agreement actually led the way for communist into the full
    grown civil war. Followed by the Marshall's "peace negotiation" effort
    (similar to Kissinger's one in Vietnam) and later the president Truman's
    White Cover report. This painful historical lesson yields the 
    uncompromised position held by the Rep. of China regarding the "unification
    negotiation" overture initiated by the red China and somewhat endorsed by
    the US (especially the Haig who has Russia phobia).

(3) USSR's involvement in the civil war

    Because of the Yalta agreement, USSR moved into Manchuria after the WWII,
    and subsequently transfered and equiped the communist militia with the
    advanced munitions left the Japanese best troop. Since then the USSR
    had been the red China's "Big Brother" until the end of the Korean War
    where US suffered heavy casualties because of the red China's "man-sea"
    tactic.

(4) The Identification problem on the so-called Taiwanese

    The real Taiwanese are not those Taiwanese lots of American think
    they are.

    Those 13 million Taiwanese are Chinese immigrants moved to the island
    at most 100 years earlier than those "mainlanders" moved in around 1949.
    Above all, only fraction of those so-called "Taiwanese" do not recognize
    their Chinese heritage and have hatred toward their countrymen. But lots
    of US journalists do not recognize that facts and thus far create a lot
    of misleading reports in this society.

Anyway this is not a pleasant topic to discussed especially in the net.news.
I sincerely recommend those who wants to comment further on this subject
go read some unbiasd history book not those news magazines published by
news-creating or liberal-minded bunch.
                                                          lcs