Friday, January 30, 2009

China Rising

A Billion Victims Rising -- Strategy Page

China is claiming that their warships escorting Taiwanese merchant ships off the Somali coast, to keep the pirates away, is another sign that Taiwan accepts that it is part of China. Taiwan has protested that this is not so, but cannot send warships to Somalia, because all the ports in the region belong to nations which have been bribed or intimidated by China to refuse entry of Taiwanese warships. Even the "Taiwanese" merchant ships travelling through the area do not fly under the Taiwanese flag (which is common, Liberia and Panama are the preferred flags of convenience).

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My Comment: A brief and informative post on China.

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