The new and improved Anti-Secession Law?
I'm supposed to be writing an article or sleeping. But I thought I'd write quickly about the big story in today's Taipei Times. The story reports on a Liberty Times story, which itself references an anonymous source quoting intelligence supposedly gathered from China-so take it with a grain of salt.
China is thinking of changing the Anti-Secession ( Read more... )
China is thinking of changing the Anti-Secession ( Read more... )
"Beijing was probably planning to propose more preferential measures in order to attract Taiwanese businesspeople to invest in the Chinese market, thereby increasing Taiwan's dependence on China, they said.
However, according to senior officials who asked not to be identified, some Chinese leaders have recently threatened to impose economic sanctions against Taiwan, saying that the nation's economy was like a diabetes patient who could not live without "insulin" from China.
China had already gone so far as to study the effects of a potential "trade war" against Taiwan, they said."
Nothing like going for the one-two punch. Pow! Increase Taiwan's dependency on China, Bam! Sanctions! I guess the Chinese really did learn something from the opium wars...well, at least from the opium part. It's all about making your trading partner completely dependent upon you.
But I've got to hand it to China. After 50 years of saying that Taiwan was a part of China, now they're actually treating Taiwan like it is, and treating Taiwanese citizens that way too. Their plan for Taiwan seems to be 1)Make the "provence" more dependent on the central government, and 2)restrict the freedoms of citizens. Way to go China.
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