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Article: Taiwanese straits.(US relations with Taiwan)(Column)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 17, 1998
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NEW YORK, JULY 10
There are not a few Americans who have plighted their troth to Taiwan, and the motivations for doing so are not unlike those that brought the free world to side with Charles de Gaulle against Henri-Philippe Petain. Back then the Nazis moved into France and made a deal with a quisling general; de Gaulle left, pronouncing himself the true representative of France.
Allow, of course, for the differences. But what President Clinton has put his foot into is a situation that has been fluid: Which way Taiwan? Over the years in several visits to Taiwan this observer has listened hard. Bear this in mind, that Taiwan was overrun by the Japanese in ...