Thread: Jane's: China to overtake Taiwan militarily by 2010
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Old 04-25-2007, 14:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Sorry people but you underestimate China. China is a lot smarter then you all think. China will and is taking over Taiwan by economic means. remember when everything used to say "Made in Taiwan"? Those days are over as China has taken over manufacturing from Taiwan. As Taiwan goes down China goes up. In 20 years time it may be in Taiwan's economic interest to simply be part of China again voluntarily.
The world is heavily-focused on comsumption, it has room for both .

Besides, I reckon Taiwan (imo) would rather become a US state than Rejoin China.

Not that it would choose either.
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