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The act by itself does not but what it does indicate is autonomy. In the case of Taiwan...oh...pardonez moi...the Republic of China, that autonomy was not granted but asserted. The US government granted the governments of US territories permissions to represent themselves at the Olympics, a global platform. For the RoC, the PRC was never consulted. The world does take notice of the significance of the difference. That and the fact that the RoC has a military whose mission is to defend the island against a possible PRC invasion. Neither Guam nor Puerto Rico has any such plans against the US. In 1993 the 'Ricans voted to remain a US territory. No one held any guns to the 'Ricans to compel them to vote that way. They assessed the pros and cons, did a cost/benefit analysis and found it was better in many ways to remain a US territory. For the Taiwanese, no doubt they performed similar analysis.
A lot of Americans and I wager Canadians as well do not understand how a government could institute the cruel one-child policy upon a culture that value males grossly over females that resulted in unknown abortions and killing of baby girls.
umm for the first part ill just say the technically prc and roc is still at war u can say all u want about prc claiming roc and such but remeber roc also claims ALL of china they maps are even bigger than prc's including Mongolia and lands under russian japanese, tai, veit and indian control just to name a few, if the situation was reverse i am willing to wager my net worth that roc would have tried to take the island.
you dont understand i agrees, no one said its a nice thing to do but the alternitive would overcrowing thus leading to the deaths of millions and collapse of the nation its call foresight and planning you can say it a bad plan all u want but you should know for all of CCP's fault it has managed the country extraordinarily well for the past 30 year despise all the problems it faced. in fact one could very possibly make the argument that CCP may infact be the greatest humanitarian party ever what other group can claim (and be verified) to have lifted hundreds of million out of poverty and AND hundreds of million into the middle class??? its ability to pull so many out of the direst conditions has been called a modern miracle. but of course they are not a "humaniitarian" party they are a government party decisions have to be made, decisions that affect thing in the long term we all know the chinese government is very patient and will wait to get things done and that including making plans and setting goals and decision thats last years and may not see the final out come for decades. but i do decry the favoritism of boy over girls but give the government some credit in this they are trying, given the opportunities woman can have now in china urban sociaty the newer generation are beginning to see that having a female child is not so bad. in the end we can only hope the CCp knows what its doing which given that it has overcome all predictions of its downfall(epecially since 89') and has actually come out of 89' very much on its own terms(still in power, absolute control, massive growth in all areas) and prehaps a more recent example may be the financial crisis which western analysts simply laughed when CCP declared that it WILL achieve 8% growth this year. who is laughing now as the growth expectation is now raised to 9.4% China Economy May Grow 9.4% This Year, Goldman Says (Update2) - Bloomberg.com given all that we can given the party some faith that it in fact knows what its doing on a national level