Would Taiwan Independence cause the PRC to collapse?

[bismarck]

That was during the cold war - IE some 27 years ago.

Now, we are not as forgiving:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Ba ... st_warrant

Really?


"A good friend"



I haven't even started on Switzerland or France yet!

OMG! Pictures of the American President meeting someone must mean he LOVES THEM.

Why I remember when Obama met Hu Jintao. It must mean they are BEST BUDDIES.

No. But they probably have shared interests (the countries, not the two guys running them), which is what it's all about at the end of the day.

[Mawvellous]

OMG! Pictures of the American President meeting someone must mean he LOVES THEM.

Why I remember when Obama met Hu Jintao. It must mean they are BEST BUDDIES.

No. But they probably have shared interests (the countries, not the two guys running them), which is what it's all about at the end of the day.

Yes, just like China.
Just to show that Western leaders do do business with brutal dictators, despite the claims of some.
Some background on Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro_Ob ... ma_Mbasogo

[bismarck]

OMG! Pictures of the American President meeting someone must mean he LOVES THEM.

Why I remember when Obama met Hu Jintao. It must mean they are BEST BUDDIES.

No. But they probably have shared interests (the countries, not the two guys running them), which is what it's all about at the end of the day.

Yes, just like China.
Just to show that Western leaders do do business with brutal dictators, despite the claims of some.
Some background on Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro_Ob ... ma_Mbasogo

You attributed a quote to me erroneously...

I agree, they do do business with the worst sort, as long as it's in their interests to do so. It's childlike naivete to think any country does anything for the "good" of it. That's just the fairytales crooked politicians the world over tell the "huddling masses" to make them feel better.

[Mawvellous]

OMG! Pictures of the American President meeting someone must mean he LOVES THEM.

Why I remember when Obama met Hu Jintao. It must mean they are BEST BUDDIES.

No. But they probably have shared interests (the countries, not the two guys running them), which is what it's all about at the end of the day.

Yes, just like China.
Just to show that Western leaders do do business with brutal dictators, despite the claims of some.
Some background on Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro_Ob ... ma_Mbasogo

You attributed a quote to me erroneously...

I agree, they do do business with the worst sort, as long as it's in their interests to do so. It's childlike naivete to think any country does anything for the "good" of it. That's just the fairytales crooked politicians the world over tell the "huddling masses" to make them feel better.

Sorry about that. I have corrected the error.

[headhonchoII]

Well I think the end of WWII where many of your fellow citizens died fighting in foreign countries might disagree on that point, they were doing good in general and they knew it too.

[bismarck]

Well I think the end of WWII where many of your fellow citizens died fighting in foreign countries might disagree on that point, they were doing good in general and they knew it too.

Sure, but that was 65 years ago. And the Asian theater was cocked up in the aftermath. Since then, none of that "for the good" has been in evidence.