Typical European view of reality!

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From: "Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: AW: [BoundaryPoint] new russia belarus union could scratch bylvru &
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> Sorry, this is NOT communist fiction. Culturally Taiwan has always been part
> of China and will silently unite with the P.R. once living conditions in
> both parts have become identical. Even President Bush thinks the same, if
> you follow his statements that he made on his recent trip. By the way, the
> U.S. will not even be asked whether they agree or not, it just will happen.
> Not in your generation anymore, but who cares in China about one generation!
>
> Most Chinese in China support economical progress (their form of democracy),
> and this is shared between Taiwan and the mainland. We in the saturated West
> tend to be impressed by the high numbers of reports on tortures and
> political oppression. If you divide these numbers by 5, in proportion to the
> U.S. population, the picture does not differ greatly from what you see in
> your own country if you just ask the underprivileged.
>
> This is not meant to be a political statement. Just arithmetics and
> historical lessons extrapolated. It has nothing to do with tripoints either,
> I know, so aletheiak does not need to spend his valuable time to comment.
>
> Wolfgang