HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: yuan@teri.bio.uci.edu (David Yuan)
Subject: Chinese Movie Day at Irvine, California
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: movie, UCI, CSSA
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:50:37 GMT

	        Chinese Student and Scholar Association
	            University of California, Irvine

        	    C H I N E S E   M O V I E   D A Y


Date: Dec. 19, 1992.  Sat.
Place: Student Center, UC Irvine, Irvine, California

Time table (subject to change):

12noon		The Sound of Bell from Qingliang Temple   (Mainland)
		(Qingliang Si de Zhongsheng)

1:45pm		Banana Paradise	(Taiwan)
		(Xiangjiao Tiantang)

3:45pm		Mao Tsedong's Story	(Mainland)
		(Mao zedong de Gushi)

5:45pm		Dinner Break	(America)
		(Free dinner for UCI-CSSA members)

6:30pm		Rolling Red Dust	(Taiwan)
		(Gungun Hongchen)

8:15pm		A Swordman in the Capital	(Mainland)
		(Jingdu Qou Xia)

10pm		End


Special Thanks to:
	Consulate General of the PRC, Los Angeles
	North American Affair Coordination Council, Los Angeles

For more information, send E-mail to song=cssa@ics.uci.edu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Is Chairman Mao God?
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:27:33 GMT

In article <313.9212151719@subnode.bradford.ac.uk> 90908648@bradford.ac.uk writes:
>
>This is a serious qeustion, not a joke. Just imagine,
>Chairman Mao was born on 26 December! One day after
>Jesus was born! Was it merely coincidence? Doubtful.
>Although both of them are dead, they always live in 
>people's hearts! Everywhere we see their pictures! Read their
>instructions! Lots of songs and peoms are devoted to them!
>Both of them are revered! When a SCC get exited, s/he would say:
>"I can swear before Chairman Mao!" Cab drivers in Beijing
>hang a mini-portrait of Mao in front of them to deter evils.
>I am seriously considering hanging one in my room.
> 

There is only a 1/365 chance that Jesus was born on Christmas.
The same chance that he was born on your birthday.  Then you may be his
brother.  Jesus's brother formed the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace in China
in the 1860s.
From: gk@oasis.icl.co.uk (Graeme Knight)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Virus
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:38:23 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Just to re-assure you....

I would be VERY supprised to find that a ** VIRUS **
could be stored and executed from a data file (which, of course, a .gif is).

Maybe it could be one of the other programs you`ve been running on your system.

Hope this re-assures you a little bit. As any programmer should tell you, DATA
files are SAFE from TRANSMITTING a virus. Only EXECUTABLE programs can transmit
a virus.

Rgds. 

P.s. Sorry this mail doesn`t deal with Chinese issues.... Just wanted to help.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: test
Reply-To: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:26:03 GMT

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: re math problem
Reply-To: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:25:08 GMT

I was a little surprised by the previous several answers given by other
netters, because it was simply NOT TRUE.  Although I sent my answer to the
original poster just after he posted, I feel I must post here again.

y**n+ y**(n-1)+...+1 = (1-y**n)/(1-y)
So the original equation becomes:
(a+1)y**n = ay**(n+1) +1
The intersections of LHS curve and RHS curve are solutions.
at either y=0 or y=infinity, LHS<RHS
so if there is intersection, there must be EVEN number's intersections.
so the claim of UNIQUE solution is not true.

W. Huang --- former provincial math contest No.1

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: yhuang@ss0.eng.wayne.edu
Subject: Looking for Junda Chen, Yihua Wu etc.(frm Zhiqiang Zhou)
Originator: liu@csparc10
Reply-To: yhuang@ss0.eng.wayne.edu
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:27:07 GMT

  _______  Please help me if you perhaps know these people. ________

Zhiqiang Zhou from Guangzhou is looking for Mr. Junda Chen, Mr. Yihua Wu,
Jinxi Xu, Ms. Lin Li and Wei Wang. If you get this message please contact me 
in yhuang@ss0.eng.wayne.edu, I am here as a graduate student in Wayne State 
Univ. in Detroit, CH IGAN.

I am also what touch to Miss Jing Huang because I feel awful sorry to her.

Good Bye
From: zzhang@soliton.rutgers.edu (ZhiZhong Zhang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Which box will you take?
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:21:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

To make the problem more "clear", this is another line of "reasoning".
You have this box containing $200. So the other box has either $400 or
$100. When you choose the other box, if you lose, you lose $100, but
if you win, you gain $200. Therefore you certainly should always choose
the other box.  So this is what you do. You have two boxes, you open 
one box, look at it, throw it away without thinking, and pick the other
one. That, is silly!
ZZZ
From: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: test
Date: 18 Dec 92 03:09:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: Msu.009653CF.A609E380
Reply-To: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: jiang@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Fenglai Jiang)
Subject: Re: YinHe-II, Galaxy, The Milkyway II, super computer
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:26:16 GMT

>|> <jyw@phys.psu.edu (Jin-Yuan Wu) writes:
>|> <> Architecture:		tight coupling 4 processors, sharing main memory
>|> <> Speed:		1 billion operations/sec
>|> <> 			(10 times faster than YinHe-I)
>|> <> Main frequency:	50 MHz
>|> <

I wonder who made the processors, by China or imported from other country? Anyone knows?
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:10:56 EST
From: <XXX100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Yes, those blood-card-ers are "running dogs" (Re: running dogs)

From: yeh@netix.com (Mr Shannon Yeh)
Subject: Yes, those blood-card-ers are "running dogs" (Re: running dogs)
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:51:09 GMT


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    |-|      /|\      |                        |_|  \|   /\|__  |/|__|__
             \|

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 /|  |        |     | -|-|   |-| \ |    |   |      |  / |   /|  |   |
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               /\      |_____|     |       /    \


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   |         |/    |/ /---   |/  |  /|-|  |  ------    |/|  -|-
 __|___  /  /\    /|  --|-- /|   |   |-| /|    /|--    | |  -|-     ?
                  \|    /\  \|  \|   |_| \|   /\|___   |/|___|___

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  \ --|--    /|\     |\   ___|___    | ___     \|/  __|_ ||   /\   /|__|__
    |---|   / | \    | \    /        |   |     /|\    /| ||  /  \   | /|\
  |/|___|     |      |     /____\    |/  |__\  \|    /\| \| /    \  |/ | \


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  |/|___|  /|-|  |  \/   ------    |/|  -|-
 /| |       |-| /|  /\     /|--    | |  -|-    ?
 \|/        |_| \| /  \   /\|___   |/| __|__


shannon
-------

              Long time no see!
              Your drawing style hasn't  changed yet.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: 90908648@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: test
Organization: The Ohio State University; Department of Phyiscs
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:29:45 GMT

test
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: carl_@nwu.edu 
Subject: Re: How Turkic are the "Uygurs" (Was Re: Russian in Xinjiang)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:34:27 GMT

From facial characteristics, Uygurs look much Turk than Kazakhs. Are Kazakhs  
mixture of Turks and Mongolians?

By the way, Is the word China related to the word "Khitan (Qidan)"? I was told  
in Russian, a word which sounds very similar to "Khitan" is used to describe  
people from China.

Carl
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: zha6@ellis.uchicago.edu (minghui  zhang)
Subject: Re: Gun Shot
Reply-To: zha6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:18:31 GMT

In article <BzDt2p.HJB@ulowell.ulowell.edu> cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.193111.1@wharton.upenn.edu> zhang48@wharton.upenn.edu writes:
>>In article <92351.175731U21885@uicvm.uic.edu>, U21885@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>>> 
>>> According to The World Journal (Chinese Newspaper) , Wednesday , Dec.16,
>>> 
>>> 1992 :
>>>    On Dec 15,1992 at the state of Massachusetts,
>>>    A hornor student from China shot two to dead and the other four
>>> wounded , by using his semi-auto rifle which was just bought at the
>>> same day. After the incident , he called the police department to
>>> declare the incident.
>>
>>Can anyone please confirm this?
>
>Yes! his name is Chinese name(in pingying). Psychitrist say his "failure"
>causeed his rampage. He wore a T-shirst with: sick of it all, inprints.
>It is not known what really behind the show.

His name is Wayne Lo, not really in pinyin, might be Chinese though. His mother's name is Lin-lin lo.(From Chicago Tribune)
From: yucao@cco.caltech.edu (Yu Cao, aka Bobbo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: math problem
Date: 12 Dec 1992 05:55:39 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: coil.caltech.edu

zg11@ellis.uchicago.edu (zening  ge) writes:

>In article <9212110333.AA13492@mariner.sce.carleton.ca> li@sce.carleton.ca (Yao Li) writes:
>>                            Math Problem
>>                            ------------
>>
>>Getting bored? Here is a math problem.
>>
>>There is a polynomial:
>>       -a*y**n + y**(n-1) + y**(n-2) + ... + y + 1 = 0
>>where real number a>0 and the notation "y**n" represents the nth power of y.
>>
>>It's conjectured that this polynomial has a unique positive real solution y.

This is intuitively clear. The positive terms in the LHS dominate when
y is small, but gets bended down by the -a*y**n term when y gets large.
So it crosses the positive y axis, after which it keeps going down. So
there's only one positive real solution.

Some math whiz can give a rigorous proof, I'm just a lowly physics guy.

--Yu
-- 
Yu Cao 					yucao@cco.caltech.edu
Caltech 103-33                          
Pasadena, CA 91125
From: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Which box will you take?
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:26:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: Msu.009653B0.770D2CA0
Reply-To: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University

In article <BzFCzr.7s1@news.iastate.edu>, zzuo@iastate.edu (Zhiqi Zuo) writes:
>In article <0096539E.3E68EB80@Msu.oscs.montana.edu> uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu writes:
>...
>>when you are given two boxes, the money in them has been determined. there is
>>only one pair of numbers in this problem, not 3 numbers: 200,100,400.
>>probability is a subset in the whole REAL events set.  
>
>It was not wrong to say that the possibilitie of both $400 and $100 
>are all 50%. But we can't take the expectation value here, because 
>ONLY ONE of the two evants can occur, if we REPEAT the process. 
                                             ******
are you still repeating?
ok, let me ask you one question. I have one $100 bill and one $400, and I put
randomly one of them in ONE box, and I give this box to you. what is expection
 value in this box?  certainly it is 100/2+400/2=250. In this case, we can say
possibily, but we cannot in the posted case.

W.Huang --- nothing is more difficult than the few math problem.
From: gding@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Guoyi Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: puzzle?
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:54:06 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


the cow turn 90 degree clockwise.

I figure it out this way:
one period 2 3 4 6 , the cow turn 90 degree conter-clock. 
up to 96 I got 16 period, the cow got to its original possion. 
and when 98 99 100 was counted, the cow turn 90 degree clockwise.

any smart way ? please.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: puzzle?
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:12:34 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <9212152200.AA16705@euler.Berkeley.EDU> xiaohan@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Xiaohan Yun) writes:
>
>if the number is a multiple of 2 then the cow turns 90 degree clockwise;
>if the number is a multiple of 3 then the cow turns 90 dreee counter-
>clockwise;
>if the number is a muliple of both 2 and 3, then the cow turns 180 degree;
>all other numbers, the cow stands still.

The above should:

  if(the number is multiple of 6) then...
  else if(the number is multiple of 2) then ...
  else if(..)...

Otherwise, the third if becomes redundant ;-)

BTW, i think someone already gave the answer which is the same as I got:
the tail is toward the south.


-- 
//Yijun Ding, Pittsburgh //Go your way, be happy.
From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Which box will you take?
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:13:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <Dec.17.15.09.03.1992.11153@soliton.rutgers.edu> zzhang@soliton.rutgers.edu (ZhiZhong Zhang) writes:
>I mean, why is the unopened  box always better than the opened one, although
>either box could be the opened one? Doesn't it seem a little silly?

There is no question that people should choose the unopened one here.
In fact, if the other box has either $400 or $0, now what you do?  I
think most people will still try the other one since people usually
think that they are lucky.  At least, they got a free play :-)

-- 
//Yijun Ding, Pittsburgh //Go your way, be happy.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: elezhouh@nuscc.nus.sg (Zhou Hong (Dr))
Subject: Re: Pretty girl
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:36:30 GMT

The girl in Miss.gif is not a normal girl, she is one of the top idols in
Japan.  She have many many fanes in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
No wonder you guys like her. Hahaha... :)

Zhou
At NUS
From: seb@stein.u.washington.edu (-s e b a s t i a n-)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: DATA: largest world economies
Date: 12 Dec 92 11:49:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec12.114903.26342
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

----------------------------------------------------------------------
>I think the government is having too much influence on you guys. The
>people on both sides of the straits are separated by the governments,
>not the people's own choice. We should treat each other like we treat
>ourselves. Don't be fooled by the governments. We should try to 
>understand each other and work for reunification.
>
>Meng Yao
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

	i couldn't agree more with the statement above by meng yao.
	it's the G  o  v  e  r  n  m  e  n  t !!!!!
		 ----------------------------
	
	as for reunification: i personally think that it's not a
	bad idea :) but as many people talked about, reunif will
	'drag' taiwan's economy down (somehow, i'm not sure how).
	it's kind of like taiwan might get dragged into some sort
	of 'undeveloped' nation...i hate to put it this way, but
	this is what i'm trying to say. don't get me wrong, china
	is not 'undeveloped', it's just that many parts of it still
	need lots of technology improvement and changes to make
	things better. reunif is still a very complicated issue.

	/seb
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,talk.politics.china
From: y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LAM)
Subject: Re: Respose to Jian Chen's 8th article
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:47:46 GMT

In article <BzDAI8.L46@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> achen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (positron) writes:
>
>Can you please explain how Singapore became so prosperous?
>It became prosperous AFTER the Chinese took it over.
>
>Hongkong's prosperity resulted solely from the work of
>people of HongKong.  The British deserves no credit.
>
>You should say HongKong became prosperous in spite of
>British subjugation.
>
>So I think the people of Hong Kong should have nothing
>to fear from Beijing.  They will remain to be prosperous
>in spite of Beijing also.
>
Simple. Singapore is not a Communist country.
British gives HK a Capitialistic economic environment, so it really
has some credits. I never mentioned to give full credit to it.
You THINK HK people should not be afraid of China government, this
implies HK people are not acting as what you THINK. Do you know why
HK people actually fear from China government?

>
>
>
>
From: v103rz6k@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Osman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: test
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:21:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

test
os
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: chenx@cua.edu
Subject: Re: An Old Arithmatic Problem
Organization: The Catholic University of America
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:53:50 GMT

In article <15DEC199202400198@utkvx2.utk.edu>, xic@utkvx2.utk.edu (Chen, Xi) writes:
> Well, the following is an old arithmatic problem, not mathematic problem.
> 
> Do you know a poker game called 24 points?  If you know it, you know the 
> rule.  There are four cards, 5, 5, 5 and 1.  Find an arithmatic expression
> using all the number once and only once to get 24.
> 
> Rule:  for the people who do not know the game, the following is the rule:
> The arithmatic operations are limited to add, substract, multiplication 
> and division in decimal system.  There is no binary operations, no power,
> no abstract algebra.  I do not have a big math vocabulary, but the criterion
> for the correct answer is that your answer should be able to convince others
> that the student in the third grade of elementary school should know how
> to calculate it.
> 
> I hope to see some correct answer.  If there is no correct answer posted,
> I will post the answer to the net tomorrow.
> 
> Have fun.  

I posted this problem this morning, and up to now, I have received two 
correct responses from

	Zhang, Yuemin   at  Texas A&M   and
        Yding           at  Pittsburgh

I have also received a mail from Qian Wen at Inst. for Naval Oceanography,
but the mail was empty.  I do not know what is wrong.

I will not post the answer at this time, so that more people may have some
fun.  If you get the correct answer, I will appropriate it if you do not post
it in this group before 6:00 pm this afternoon.  A funny story was that I gave
this problem to a friend of mine with a Ph.D degree, and he spend more than 
three hours and did not get correct answer.  When he finally figured it out,
he almost went to suicide, at least he told me so.
From: zzhang@soliton.rutgers.edu (ZhiZhong Zhang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Which box will you take?
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:09:04 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


The recent series of games is much more interesting than flaming wars. Here
is my little contribution. It is a puzzle of porbability.

There are two boxes. One box contains twice as much money as the other box.
That's all you know. Suppose you open a box, it contains $200. You have the
choice to take the $200 or take the other box. Will you take the $200 or
will you take the other box?   Well, you would say, it doesn't matter.
It maybe so. But, after the following simple argument, you will find that
you should always choose the unopened box. Let's see why. You know that one
box has $200. So the other box has either $400 or $100, each
possibility with a probability of 0.5. Therefore the expectation value of
money in the other box is $400*0.5+$100*0.5=$250, which is $50 more than
$200. Thus the conclusion of this argument is, you should ALWAYS choose
the other box. Now, seriously, in real life, when you are presented
with two such boxes, will you always open one box and take the other?
I mean, why is the unopened  box always better than the opened one, although
either box could be the opened one? Doesn't it seem a little silly?
Obviously something is wrong in the above argument. What's wrong?
ZZZ
zzhang@physics.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: xic@utkvx2.utk.edu (Chen, Xi)
Subject: An Old Arithmatic Problem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:40:00 GMT

Well, the following is an old arithmatic problem, not mathematic problem.

Do you know a poker game called 24 points?  If you know it, you know the 
rule.  There are four cards, 5, 5, 5 and 1.  Find an arithmatic expression
using all the number once and only once to get 24.

Rule:  for the people who do not know the game, the following is the rule:
The arithmatic operations are limited to add, substract, multiplication 
and division in decimal system.  There is no binary operations, no power,
no abstract algebra.  I do not have a big math vocabulary, but the criterion
for the correct answer is that your answer should be able to convince others
that the student in the third grade of elementary school should know how
to calculate it.

I hope to see some correct answer.  If there is no correct answer posted,
I will post the answer to the net tomorrow.

Have fun.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:20:39 EST
From: <JXL19@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups:               soc.culture.china
Subject: Looking for Ms Jie Min [from J-M]

    J-M L is looking for Ms Jie Min who came from Beijing in 1988. If you get
    this message please contact me at

              JXL19@psuvm.psu.edu

    Please......
From: anw1@cec2.wustl.edu (Aaron Wong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Mongolia
Date: 17 Dec 92 06:28:33 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO

In article <92350.153049ROS100@psuvm.psu.edu> <ROS100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Hello everyone:
>
>Could someone please tell me how the Han Chinese feelabout the Mongolians (aft
>er the ousting of the Chinese from Outer Mongolia in the 1920's?) and also why
>the Mongolians insist that their New Year (which coincidentally falls on the sa
>me day as the Chinese New Year) has nothing to do with the chinese new year?
>
>Olej

I have never seen a Mongolian, nor heard much about them. So I don't feel
about them, except perhaps curiosity.

"Chinese" New Year is a misnomer. It should be Lunar New Year. This 
Oriental calendar system synchronizes with the moon more than with the sun.

NGOK
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: changhp@engin.umich.edu (Hsiou-Ping Chang)
Subject: (Re: DATA: largest world economies)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:20:07 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan
Reply-To: changhp@engin.umich.edu
Originator: changhp@fijan.engin.umich.edu


In article <105168@bu.edu>, yush@buengc.bu.edu (Guo-Xiang Yu) writes:

> Whether Taiwan should be a
> independent country or not can only be decided by the whole Taiwan
> people.

	Thank you for supporting Taiwan people.
	Your friendly point of view is highly appreciated.

> You can't impose your political view on Taiwanese just like I
> can't impose mine on you. 
	
	When we, people of Taiwan, are talking about
the Taiwan issues, we are discussing our own problems.
	When you, people from China, are talking about
the Taiwan issues, you are talking about your neighbor country's
problems.
	Your situation and Mr. Liao's are apparently different.

>        -Guo-Xiang
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