China scary, China not so scary
■"China Sends Warning to Taiwan With Anti-Scession Law," by Edward Cody, Washington Post, 8 March 2005, p. A12.■"Sale of I.B.M. Unit to China Passes U.S. Security Muster," by Stteve Lohr, New York Times, 10 March 2005, pulled off web.
Well, those non-too-subtle Chinese have done it alright: they've formalized the notion that they won't stand for Taiwan's independence and they would use military force to prevent it.
Wow!
Imagine the U.S. passes a resolution saying that if you attacked-I dunno-anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, we'd respond with military force. It would be . . . like a doctrine or something.
Hmm. U.S. has a Monroe Doctrine for entire Western Hemisphere and China has a Hu Doctrine for . . . all of . . . Taiwan.
Man, who does those Chinese think they are?
I mean, America gets to invade countries and topple regimes in the Middle East and China's talking about threatening a small island nation off its coast, to which the losing side in its civil war retreated several decades ago. Who do these people think they are?
But China must not be too scary, otherwise why give them the keys to the 21st century? The ability to produce PCs on par with IBM, that leader in PC . . . uh . . . IBM makes PCs?