Politics confuses me
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Today when I went to the CNN site I found this news in the Asia section. It's not the article itself that is important, but the fact that the author has given the title the impression of Taiwan being a part of China.Usually, journalists write of Taiwan as a country and not a state/province of China, so this article (well, the title at least) made me stop and think.
In the article the author gives no further views(or clues?) on whether Taiwan belongs to China or not. Maybe it's just the title?
This whole issue is confusing me, what do western media want to say, where is their standpoint? Is Taiwan a country? Some news/travel articles are written as if Hong-Kong was an independent country.
Traditionally, China claims Taiwan to be a province and Taiwan claims itself to be an independent country. The USA has always been poking here and there, changing sides all the time, getting advantages from both sides. The stories from all sides are basically the same but with slight differences at crucial points to change the entire moral of the story, thus making their respective arguments.
I am originally mainland Chinese but I don't really care. My personal standpoint? It would be good for China to reunify Taiwan but starting a war for Taiwan is not really worth it. With the advanced weapons of today, the ones suffering the most (if a war would eventually break loose) would be the civilians .. and if a war would break loose, it would basically mean the end of the World©.
Perhaps this CNN article title is the first sign of journalists changing attitude towards the China-Taiwan issue?
Ahh, confusing stuff, eh? Don't think this will be fixed for another 20-30 years.
posted by Err0r @ 8:41 PM,
