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