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Letters
to the editor in the "Miami Sun Sentinel."
June 9,
2001
SEMANTIC
GAP
It is
true that Americans’ viewpoint on China is narrow in some
aspects, but Mr. Guy’s view on Taiwan’s status needs to be
broadened.
While
the Chinese consider Taiwan part of China, most other nations
and the United States do not "consider" it as such.
In fact, most of these nations were forced to "acknowledge"
or "notice" the so-called "one-China"
policy, but not to "recognize" it. It is like the
different wording the U.S. played between ":sorry"
and "Apology" related to the April 1 EP-3E surveillance
plane collision near Hainan Island. There seems to be a big
difference.;
ROBERT
TSAI
Plantation
CHINESE
HAVE LONG BEEN AGGRESSORS
Re Kingsley
Guy’s column, "Americans’ viewpoint tends to be narrow":
China is historically an aggressive country. China has a total
of 4,700 years’ history. In the first 2,000 years, they were
only gathering in a small region in the Yellow River area.
There were at least six or seven countries co-existing in
the beginning. After many wars doing several hundreds of years.
China became one country (about 2,500 years ago) at the region
between the Yellow River and north of Young-Ze river, a small
region of territory compared to today’s China.
But Chinese
emperors have never stopped invading their neighbor countries.
When the Han dynasty and Tong dynasty were at their peaks,
their territories expanded to al their neighbors. Tibet and
Mongolia have been on an off as part of Chinese occupied regions,
but never became and integral part of China.
Taiwan
was never on the map until 400 years ago. Taiwan has only
become part of Chinese territory in a very brief period of
time before it was transferred to Japan in 1895, after China
lost the war to the Japanese.
After
Communists took over China in 1949, china has had territory
wars and/or disputes with every neighboring country. Communist
has conflicts with Russia, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea,
Taiwan and the USA.
Please
let us not forget that we have lost many thousands of GI’s
lives during the Korean and Vietnam wars because of Communist
Chinese involvement.
SONG Y.
LEE
Davie
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