Taiwan’s Tricky Sticky Status
watch on iPhone/iPod TouchSummary: Holy crap! The US is selling $6.4 billion bucks worth of arms to Taiwan….and China is pissed! This must be the beginning of WW3 and the end of the world! NOT. This arms deal, and China’s reaction to it, is a regular occurrence that has been happening for 60 years. The bigger story is why it is happening, and for that we need to understand the Taiwanese/Chinese relationship, and how the US got in the middle of the mess in the first place. The Avenger outlines how Taiwan got into this strange ‘non-state’ status, and how that relates to US/Chinese relations. Time for a Taiwanese tango!
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Keywords: Taiwan, US, China, Ma Ying-jeou, Chen Shui-bian, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Taiwan Relations Act
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Entertaining and educational as always my plaid friend. Can’t wait for the next episode to learn more about this Taiwan relationship.