Is Taiwan the new Czechoslovakia?
This is the question that the entire world should think about very hard. The Telegraph is reporting that the Vatican is considering dropping its recognition of Taiwan and only recognizing the Peoples Republic of China. The negotiator of this deal Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun was quoted saying:
"The Holy See has been thinking of giving up Taiwan. This is a difficult
[decision], but it has decided to do it. If the Holy See does not
establish [diplomatic] ties with China, Catholics there will not have real
freedom."
Don't look twice, you read it correctly the Vatican is “giving up Taiwan”, an entire independent nation, so that the Catholics in China will be allowed to worship freely. They are not asking for freedom of worship for everyone in China, only the freedom of the followers of Catholicism. Whatever happened to the Vatican standing up for freedoms of all people and not just the Catholics? The answer is probably that if those ideals ever existed in the first place, and I doubt that they did, then those ideals just died with the pope.
However, we should not blame the Vatican alone for most countries of the world, including the United States, are doing the same thing. Just look at last years Olympics when China threatened not to participate if the Taiwanese delegation marched under the Taiwanese flag and not the China Taipei flag.
What China is doing with Taiwan is eerily similar to what Germany did with Czechoslovakia.
Today, the world must stand up to China on the Taiwan issue, and recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. For if we don't, then history will repeat itself and after Taiwan becomes part of the mainland then China might try to grab other and maybe bigger things.
posted by Aleksandr at 12:34 AM
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Taiwan is one country that fills my heart with near anguish when I think about it. Eventually it will be sold to communist China unless good people of the world stand up and demand their governments protect it.
Sold for cheap goods with bloodstains on them.
If you read the text below you will see why China believes it has a claim to Taiwan. There is a comparison that follows after the Cairo text.
Makes you think!
Cairo Declaration
(Declaration of the Three Powers-Great Britain, the United States and China regarding Japan.)
Signed at Cairo, November 27, 1943
President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Mr. Churchill, together with their respective military and diplomatic advisers, have completed a conference in North Africa.
The following general statement was issued :
"The several military missions have agreed upon future military operations against Japan. The Three Great Allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemies by sea, land, and air. This pressure is already rising.
"The Three Great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed. The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent.
"With these objectives in view the three Allies, in harmony with those of the United Nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere in the serious and prolonged operations necessary to procure the unconditional surrender of Japan."
Comparison:
American Samoa was defined by a treaty in 1899 between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, which gave the United States control of all Samoan islands east of 171°W.
However, during the Cairo conference the representatives of China were the democratic National party, which relocated to Taiwan after it was kicked out by Mao Ze Dong. So Taiwan is part of a democratic China, and since that doesn’t exist they have chosen to be their own nation.
That's incorrect; Taiwan WAS part of a democratic China and became part of a Communist China.
Roosevely was a Democrat; does that imply that being as there is now a Republican in office Samoa can request a separation from the US.
If you work for a company that is taken over by a larger one you become a subsidiary of that company. If new bosses take over and the former bosses are given your subsidiary to run do they automatically have the right to operate independently of the larger company that owns them? Of course not.
Would I like to see a peaceful solution with a democratic Taiwan free from external interference? Of course!
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