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Article: Obsession in Beijing.(China's obsession with Taiwan)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 20, 2000
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Reading the Chinese government's 11,000-word white paper on Taiwan brings to mind G. K. Chesterton's remark that madness consists not so much in a deficiency of reason as in an excess of it. Here, in all its terrifying minuteness, is the logic of the lunatic. At one point, the white paper argues-at some length-that to take into consideration the wishes of the actual people of Taiwan would be "undemocratic." One recalls that 30 years ago, this same Chinese Communist party was solemnly instructing its people that extreme leftism was a rightist deviation. Here, naked and shameless, is the demented arrogance of rulers who for 70 years have conducted their affairs by murdering ...
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