Re: Did the TIers care about the world?

"betelnut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "LT Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5
> 3227-2003Oct6&notFound=true
> >
> > "Chen said he would not bow to U.S. pressure to modify recent moves --
> > including holding a referendum on rewriting the constitution and
> > adding the name Taiwan to its official Republic of China passports --
> > which Bush administration officials worry could heighten tensions with
> > Beijing."
> >
> > "The Bush administration has watched with some alarm as the president
> > has launched initiatives that many fear are designed to prompt a sharp
> > reaction from Beijing, which has threatened to attack Taiwan if it
> > declares independence. In the past weeks, Deputy Secretary of State
> > Richard L. Armitage, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher and
> > the U.S. envoy to Taiwan, Douglas Paal, have all publicly cautioned
> > Chen. The Taiwanese president will transit through the United States
> > later this month on his way to Panama."
> >
> > -------------------
> >
> > Sure, Taiwan has the right to walk her own road. However, Taiwan under
> > CSB is not walking her the Taiwan depending on the Taiwanese
> > themselves. Rather, Chen is relying on the risk of a regional conflict
> > and possible widespread andn prolong instability as his capital for
> > independence.
> >
> > Chen declared that he would not bow to U.S. pressure to modify recent
> > moves. Implication: he does not care about the world including U.S.
> > interest. This is called unilateralism.
> >
> > Question: Taiwan independent fundamentalists do not care about the
> > welfare of the world. Why should the world cares about them?
> 
> yeah but CSB already assumes that TI is the righteous path that the world
> should know and accept, war or no war.

At the same time, he and his supportors are blind to the fact the the
world or 98+% of the world had accepted the One China Principle over
the past 40 years. This is what made him a fundamentalist and the
whole TI movement a fundamentalist movement.