"Modern Taiwan is free and democratic and prosperous. By embracing freedom at all levels, Taiwan has delivered prosperity to its people and created a free and democratic Chinese society."
-11/16/05 (01:15 GMT)George Walker
Bush
With these words, Bush has finally crystalized himself as a fully blown retard in my mind. I had no idea this man was going to reject and shatter the over 50-years stance of 2 Chinas 1 policy the United States has had since the 1954 outing of the Guo Ming Tan (people's national party) to Taiwan.
What he has done is possibly awaken a potential giant, a seething body of unrest and national pride with barely hidden anti-Americanism in China.
My father, when he was alive, was a cardio-vascular scientist, nearly apolitical and yet had to stop talking to his foreign exchange students from China in regard to Taiwan or democracy in Taiwan. I have had guest speakers from Beijing in my chinese class go literally lividly purple over Taiwan. Taiwan is China. China is Taiwan. End of fucking story, in their mind. Anything otherwise is an affrontry and a total slap in the face.
Is he determined to have the entire world looking like the middle east? With such statements as this, it is quite possible.
Background:
Taiwan is a small island, is/use to be a province of China depending who you talk to. It is comparable to California: largest economy in America, largest economy in Taiwan. Imagine the american government is outed, forced from D.C. to California, where they set up shop and militarize the entire border to keep out the usurpers. That is almost exactly what happened.
Bush, in his bumbling statement, has destroyed the delecate see-saw balance of power in the Asiatic.