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Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth
frank_adrian314159 writes "As reported in The Register, Taiwan wants Google Earth to stop calling it a province of China. Although Google has yet to comment on this issue, it will be interesting to see the brightest minds that money can buy trying to solve what decades of diplomats have unsuccessfully wrestled with - how to balance the nationalistic pride of the inhabitants of Taiwan against the nationalistic pride of the inhabitants of mainland China." From the article: "Foreign ministry spokesman, Michel Lu, explained: 'It is incorrect to call Taiwan a province of China because we are not. We have contacted Google to express our position and asked them to correct the description.' Google has maintained a stony silence on the matter, presumably while it tries to work out a solution which will please both the Taiwanese and the hosts of the (lucrative, burgeoning, inviting) Chinese internet search business opportunity market."
What sort or moron are you? How many countries recognise Taiwan as an independant country? And how many countries has the US attacked and fought wars in? China, ultra aggressive?
Shall we list the number of countries the U.S. has invaded in defiance of the U.N.?
Are you living in some alternate political universe or what?
Wow, you are so wrong and misguided it isn't even funny. The Korean War was fought because the UN (read USA) forces were encroaching far too close to our borders; in fact some border towns on our side were bombed. We had no choice but to intervene given the circumstances of the UN invasion of North Korea. The UN was there to overturn the communist government, and were essentially encroaching on our borders; who knew if they would push their advantage into China or not? Several US generals were certainly in favor of it; of course this is not what actually happened but hindsight is almost 20/20. You can't tell me with a straight face that seeing an army on your doorstep out to end your form of government wouldn't make you think that this army was going to attack you.
The war against India was not imperialistic at all; it was a border dispute that India was getting too agressive about; we attacked them, taught them a lesson, and backed out. If we were so imperialistic, why don't we hold any Indian territory today? In fact those same territories that were under dispute then are still under dispute now.
Oh, if you think China funded the Afghanistan muhajadeen, guess who funded them much much more? That's right, Uncle Sam, your bastion of democracy and freedom. And wait, weren't Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar (head of Taliban) among them?
We haven't fought Japan in a war since World War II, and we fought them b/c they attacked us to try to wipe us out. If you are going to criticize us for that, why not criticize Uncle Sam for fighting Japan after they bombed Pearl Harbor?
Hey, didn't the USA openly support Ngo Dinh Diem and then have him assasinated when he became corrupt and was of no further use? Oh right, they supported Batista too, the corrupt dictator of Cuba who was overthrown by Castro. I could go on and on in the list of corrupt leaders Uncle Sam supported at one time.
And there was never a war in Tibet, we went there to reinstate our rightful authority there given the fact that Tibet was a province of China under the Empire, and since the PRC is a successor state i.e. is in a chain of replacement governemnts of the Empire, the PRC is legally in control of Tibet. So what you're saying is basically the equivalent of saying that China can't send troops to its own territory.
Maybe you could at least look up the information more thoroughly before posting random anti-China crap like this.
You're really funny. What makes you think that I'm getting paid? What makes you think that the Chinese government cares enough about a bunch of random nerds in the west (i.e. Slashdot audience) to have their own paid agents to post there? Money does not grow on trees, and the government needs it to do better things. As far as the Chinese government is concerned, it could care less about the Slashdot audience. I'm just posting b/c I don't like random anti-Chinese flamebait.
China government has done bad things, but you've exaggrated too much. "invaded Vietnam", it has mixed interpretations even in the west. "supplied Afghan fighters against the Soviet Union", isn't US the main supplier? and Mr. Rumsfield played a key role here. "worked on a genocide program against Muslims", Eastern Turkish Revolution Roganization is a terroist group long before 9/11, who performed bus bombs in 1990s. China government's treatment can be viewed biased, but far from genocide. "given nuclear weapon plans to Pakistan", don't know much about it. What about Isreal's nuclear capability that US knows too well to mention it? I don't know whether US has any role in it. "is going to get a lot more people killed", Are you predicting an evil China and want a pre-emptive war to prevent?
You seem to know a lot of "hidden things" and consider it facts.