From: s9874194@phobos.ucc.umass.edu (s9874194)
Subject: Re: 150 F-16 to Taiwan
Summary: 150 F-16 to Taiwan
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Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:36:00 GMT

In article <Bu0KqH.Co5@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v999qx29@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes...
>In article <2SEP199222243857@deimos.ucc.umass.edu>, s9874194@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (s9874194) writes...
>>In article <1992Sep02.215414.8602@jho.com>, john@jho.com (John Ho) writes...
>>>>How about sell 300 F-16 to China? That would be more helpful and
>>may make more than $8 billion. That would give the US economy a
>>big boost. Poor George ! 
>>And Poor Chinese! Mainland is buying weapons from the formor USSR 
>>while Taiwan is buy weapons from the USA and French. Those guys are 
>>making money from Chinese while Chinese on both side of the Straight 
>>is armed to teeth to fight each other so those guys can have fun to 
>>watch the show.
>>That is the stage of international politics. People do not spend money
>>to watch show, rather people earning money to watch show.
>>Please, can somebody stand up to stop this? 
>>c.q.
> 
>Why don't mainland stop stopping other country selling weapon to Taiwan?
>That will make the price of weapons lower so Taiwan dosn't have to spend
>too much . Taiwan has declared not to use military force in the unification
>of China if Taiwan is not under military invasion. Why do those F-16 have to
>be used against mainland? No matter unification or TI , people in Taiwan are
>still ethnically unchanged . Why is there fear among mailanders that taiwan
>will be separated from China foever? The only thing Taiwanese want is pease
>and prosperity and a guarentee that they will never suffer from any unpredict-
>able disaster like what they have suffered before. They need to hold their
>future with their own hands not with the mercy of others.And the F-16s helps.
>If you were a Taiwanese , don't you think so? Please remember almost all 
>Taiwanese are descendents of Chinese settlers not conquored minorities.

1. I do not know how you got the conclusion that the weapon price would
be lower if Beijing allow the other country to sell weapons to Taipei.

2. If you agreee that Taiwan is part of China, as most of the countries in
the world do, then selling weapons to Taiwan does not make any sense
according to international law. It just like selling weapons to IRA
(Ireland Republican Army, fighting for the independence of Northern
Irelend). It is clearly an invasion to a country's sovereignty.

3. If you treat Taiwan as a independend country, by selling weapon to
Taipei (in fact by selling weapon to either side of the Straight) would 
just promote the straint relation. It is not difference compare to
Beijing selling weapons to Iran or Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. Why
does not the West sell weapons to Bosnia even though the desperately
need weapons to defend themslves? I could not see F-16s used for
other purpose except agains mainland.

It is very clear that the arm sells of US, Ukrain and Russia are
for their own interest -- to help their own economy. It is totaly
not in the interests of the people on both side of the Straight,
no matter you pro-independence or unification. I am against all the
arm deal.

c.q.
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