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CHINA: "America Needs To Accept The Painful Fact That The Good Old Days Are Over"

It would depend on what one decides as keeping ones nose out of others business.

Piracy that has or does target ships that belong to owns country could count as ones business. Which is why I didnt include the War of 1812, as UK privateers were effecting US trading vessels

The point was about intervention, not keeping your nose out of others' business. The US has ALWAYS insited on the right to navigate the seas since its founding, and that has led to interventions. If China controls East Asia, do you honestly think the waterways here will remain open? The South China Sea? The Taiwan Strait? the East China Sea? Really think about this...
 
The point was about intervention, not keeping your nose out of others' business. The US has ALWAYS insited on the right to navigate the seas since its founding, and that has led to interventions. If China controls East Asia, do you honestly think the waterways here will remain open? The South China Sea? The Taiwan Strait? the East China Sea? Really think about this...

Will the water ways remain open, generally yes. As China is making alot of money through international trade, keeping the water ways open to trade would be important. Now will China allow for foreign militaries to navigate those regions, no.

But then the US kept central america and south america as its playground for the last 100+ years. Working on keeping any non US presence out.
 
Was it not the actions of the "business community" that put us in this place to begin with? Oh wait, government wrote, issued, insured, and exported the toxic mortgages that infected the global financial system.:roll:



Not all economic problems were caused by the the "Business Community," a great deal of the housing trouble started back in 1977 with passage of Community Reinvestment Act which made it possible for lower income people to get loans they could never afford to pay back.

Congress thought this is wonderful, and it was, until they started spending money had over fist that they didn't have, on Wars we didn't need and we said nothing because revenge was on the minds of millions, and it sort of make sense at the time to many. I was not one of them.

We could have taken Osama out cleanly by doing nothing as strong as an all out war we never seemed to want to win. It turned into another Vietnam with no end in sight because we are playing to win.
The bad guys were knew that eventually a weak-kneed, cowardly person would come along as Obama has and announce the Taliban's day of Victory, which is when our troop strength drops to such a low level they can't do much.

Congress and Obama continued the spending with boondoggles like Solyndra, Cash for Cars most of the bailouts and on and on.

So there is plenty of blame and we need to realize that we let it happen.

From the start of the Afghanistan War I was yelling about it on the radio fives days a week.

I also warned that the housing bubble was about to pop since 2002.

In less than ten years I saw prices on lots go up by more than three times their worth, and it had to end. Those prices in some cases are lower now than they were in 2002.

If we don't pay attention and do our own do diligence, we will pay the price in the end.

I say the "good old day" will begin to come back when Obama is gone and Reid no longer can dictate terms or block legislation.
 
You mean "nonsense" that simply shows you have no credibility? And yes, it is relevant as it goes to show that on topics related to China and Blues, you have no credibility. And.. considering you have cited quotes from another website from even longer ago... your hypocrisy is clear for all to see.
No, nonsense because it was never an issue to begin with, but this victimization that your greens continually feign.

I suppose you have forgotten that not only have gains been made, but that in the last election cycle in which everyone voted for county magistrates and municipal mayors, the DPP easily outpolled the KMT in terms of total popular votes.
Yeah tea baggers made a lot of gains last year, so what? Ruling party always looses seats, means nothing.
Secondly, you wrongfully assume that I'm a strong supporter of the KMT, sorry to bring reality to your wet dream but just because I don't support your hateful agenda hardly means that I'm a supporter of your opposition party.

The case in question had nothing to do with her dual citizenship. It was about fraud. She has dual citizenship. This has been confirmed by the State Department. This case is about whose responsibility it is to uncover it and relates to her salary during the time she illegally held office.
Fraud charges that she has been completely dismissed of.

The only person taking anything out of context is you.
:lamo you're silly :lamo

She violated the same law that she accused others of violating while she was a city councilor in Taipei. There is nothing silly about violating the law... unless the KMT is violating it, I suppose...
Oops, don't want to be there being a jerk making false accusations against me do you? I'll get the mods on you for violating forum rule 4 :lamo

The KMT also plays the ethnic card and has for generations. Ma wasn't born in Taiwan. This is a well-known fact.
So? You know it's wrong and so it's okay for you guys to play the race card today? What about Ma not being born in Taiwan? He was born in the Republic of China, end of story.

Wrong. Read heading 14 on the bottom of page 7 on your United States passport. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of State confirmed that she still holds U.S. citizenship -- which I have already linked and you misconstrued... again...
So US citizens can hold foreign office now? That's news to me.

It isn't meaningless except in the minds of the KMT and their supporters.
No, it's pretty much meaningless nonsense to any non pan greens. Once more, I don't support the KMT.

This from someone who defends Ma, Lee, Chiu and other KMT stalwarts on every opportunity and attacks the greens. Anyone who reads your posts knows that what you say and reality are not one and the same.
I attack the greens hardly means I support the KMT. You new at this forum thing LDH?

Taiwan is not part of China. China is the greatest threat to the freedoms the 23 million people in Taiwan enjoy today. That you support them shows that you do not have Taiwan's freedom and democracy at heart. As for freedoms in China, it is too bad you support thugs who violate basic rights that the people of China are entitled in accordance with conventions China is a signatory to.
Whoa, there you go again LDH, making no distinction between the PRC's citizenry and it's government when it suits your argument.

You don't remember the thread you started praising his ascension to the presidency?
I praised him for making such statements? Unless you can show me that you're just grasping.

Whatever... you didn't link the usage. I never called you Fuh on this forum.
Some of us have better things to do with our lives than searching through old archives.

I am not a public figure. President Ma is.
According to your own words.
We are not friends. You know very well in China that simply stating someone's surname without some form of honorific is NOT customary and in some contexts can be insulting. I have told you before I don't want you to do it, and I am within my rights on this forum to insist on it...
What you are doing here is utterly pathetic and disgraceful. You're using people's ignorance of Chinese customs and language thus feign outrage and pretend that it is somehow insulting when you know damn well that it is not, not even in the least, you know damn well that it's just an abbreviation.
So if You don't like lu and are feigning this outrage, than I'll just use LDH, initials of your pretend name.

Read rule number 4. Study it. Live it.
Unless I'm insulting you with your own name, rule 4 is irrelevant and it is you who is being the jerk who is insisting on someone not using an abbreviation of your pretend name.

President Ma is a public figure. And it is consistent with journalistic form. You are not a journalist and this is not a newspaper.
In journalism, the president of a country is most certainly referenced as President so and so, at least within real journalism. It is only within non-journalism material such as tabloids that the titles are omitted.
 
Will the water ways remain open, generally yes. As China is making alot of money through international trade, keeping the water ways open to trade would be important. Now will China allow for foreign militaries to navigate those regions, no.

But then the US kept central america and south america as its playground for the last 100+ years. Working on keeping any non US presence out.
LDH doesn't like people challenging him on his china hatred rants. It doesn't matter that the US kept all of latin-America as it's own playground for so long because in his mind ONLY China is the evil.
It's why he can so easily side with a racist on China.
 
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No, nonsense because it was never an issue to begin with, but this victimization that your greens continually feign.

Yeah... it is only an issue when Greens violate the law. When a KMT member violates the law, it is not an issue. Umm... this shows how out of touch you are with what is happening here in Taiwan.

Yeah tea baggers made a lot of gains last year, so what? Ruling party always looses seats, means nothing.

Not just a matter of gaining seats, more people voted for DPP candidates than KMT candidates over the entire country.

Secondly, you wrongfully assume that I'm a strong supporter of the KMT, sorry to bring reality to your wet dream but just because I don't support your hateful agenda hardly means that I'm a supporter of your opposition party.

Your posts on here tell a completely different story.

Fraud charges that she has been completely dismissed of.

Not completely dismissed. Prosecutors may still appeal (and my understanding is that they will). It doesn't change the fact that, contrary to what you claimed, Diane Lee IS a dual U.S.-Taiwan citizen. This was confirmed by AIT and the US State Department.


So? You know it's wrong and so it's okay for you guys to play the race card today? What about Ma not being born in Taiwan? He was born in the Republic of China, end of story.

He was NOT born in the Republic of China. Try again.

So US citizens can hold foreign office now? That's news to me.

Sure they can. It is a Taiwan law that forbids dual citizens from holding public office, not U.S. law. The Department of State confirmed that she is a U.S. citizen. You FAIL again.

No, it's pretty much meaningless nonsense to any non pan greens. Once more, I don't support the KMT.

Your posts say otherwise.

I attack the greens hardly means I support the KMT. You new at this forum thing LDH?

Been here long enough to see you celebrate the KMT victory and defend the illegal and anti-Taiwan actions of the KMT government.

Whoa, there you go again LDH, making no distinction between the PRC's citizenry and it's government when it suits your argument.

A statement that only proves that you have reading comprehension problems.

I praised him for making such statements? Unless you can show me that you're just grasping.

I didn't say you praised him for those statements, but you have praised him on this forum.

Some of us have better things to do with our lives than searching through old archives.

You know, DP has a pretty good and effective search program. I will take it that you have nothing to go by because I didn't do what you claim.

What you are doing here is utterly pathetic and disgraceful. You're using people's ignorance of Chinese customs and language thus feign outrage and pretend that it is somehow insulting when you know damn well that it is not, not even in the least, you know damn well that it's just an abbreviation.

I don't care what Chinese customs are. I care what Taiwanese customs are as I live in Taiwan. People do not typically refer to others by simply a surname and you know it.

So if You don't like lu and are feigning this outrage, than I'll just use LDH, initials of your pretend name.

I have said before and I will remind you that it is actually the English version of my legal name in Taiwan. Unlike you who not only uses a fake name on here, you used a common mispronunciation of it by Taiwanese people. Are you mocking them?

Unless I'm insulting you with your own name, rule 4 is irrelevant and it is you who is being the jerk who is insisting on someone not using an abbreviation of your pretend name.

It is my real name in Taiwan. It is my legal name here and I compete under that name in domestic competition.

In journalism, the president of a country is most certainly referenced as President so and so, at least within real journalism. It is only within non-journalism material such as tabloids that the titles are omitted.

In the body of an article, yes. Often not in headlines.
 
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