When did it become politics?

[barret]

For those of you who have seen this (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/26/taiwan.march/index.html), please answer me this. How can bringing 'freedom' to China make them anyless violent? I am talking directly about the first paragraph :
"China is a violent country. We want nothing to do with it," said protester Wu Chao-hsiung, a carpenter from Taipei. "We have to insist on the freedom to determine our own fate."

. For some reason, I do not understand how getting involved with the politics of a country that you do no want to deal with is going to help out the situation?

[LSD]

How can bringing 'freedom' to China make them anyless violent?

I think you may have misunderstood.

The protesters don't want freedom for China, they want freedom from China!

They want Taiwan to be recognized as the independent state that it has been for fifty years.


For some reason, I do not understand how getting involved with the politics of a country that you do no want to deal with is going to help out the situation?

Because China keep threatening to invade. What else do you want them to do?

[barret]

ahh, it seems slightly clearer. Is this similar to the situation that happened in Tibet?

[LSD]

Not exactly.

Actually, in this case Taiwain is functionally independent.

There are no PRC troops in Taiwan, nor does the CCP exert any influence over the Taipei government. It simply refuses to acknowledge that Taiwain is a seperate country and hence Taiwan is unable to gain international recognition from all but a handful of nations, and the Taiwanese people constantly lives under the threat of a Chinese invasion.