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Old 07-30-2007, 13:20 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zhang Fei View Post
My impression from talking to average Chinese is that if it were up to them, an invasion would have been launched decades ago. It's the leadership that's holding back an invasion, not Chinese public opinion. (Of course, the Chinese public also thinks that Taiwan would be a pushover, with or without US intervention).
Unfortunately that is completely true, it is facts like these that make me realize that the chinese people are very dangerous if they were democratic. At first I thought this was mostly the uneducated masses, but that was disproven after talking to educated ultranationalists and there are alot of them out there.
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