Before WW2 you mean. I would hardly hope a repeat of that particular event.
Here here. Let's hope that forevermore WW II can be known not only as World War Two, but The Last World War!
China better be on their best behavior the next few years. Can you see them threatening Taiwan any further, thus provoking the Americans before the Olympics? I would hope not. Can anyone say 'boycott'?
The real crock is that the average Chinese person is a nice, intelligent, peacable individual. It's the Evil Red Chinese Gov't that must go, or else completely renounce its evil past, actions, goals, philosophy, human rights abuses, nuclear arms/biological arms/chemical arms, etc.
The Evil Red Chinese Gov't could take a first step by simulteously announcing they are the first government in the world to officially recognize Taiwan as an independent nation (not even the US has done that!), all ballistic missile and nuclear weapon development is unilaterally and permanantly disbanded, and human rights abuses will not only be abandoned, but victims compensated in some (even minor) way.
That would give them the real high road and a great leverage into world affairs, esp. against us here in America.
I suspect without the stong hand of an evil gov't, however, that the geographic China we know today might fracture into self-governing smaller regions and maybe into separate nations.
Though politics and the modern olympics are pretty much inseparable, I do wish athletics could remain "unspoiled" by the evils of politics AND corporation!
EDIT: The usual typos.
[This message has been edited by starlifter (edited July 15, 2001).]
