Taiwan ar why u like this?I tot we suppose to be friends....
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The empty talk of Singapore
By Daniel McCarthy
Wednesday, Sep 01, 2004,Page 8
The recent supplication of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (—›èû—´) to Beijing comes as no surprise. Singapore has a long and consistent tradition of suppressing human rights and democracy among its own people in the interest of maintaining a dictatorship and advancing commercial interests. It should be no surprise that Singapore's leader would be willing to verbally sacrifice Taiwan in order to curry favor with a companion dictatorship that represents a major market. Anyone who reads the Straits Times cannot mistake the continued anti-Taiwan, pro-China tirade that Singapore's leading newspaper echoes.
But we can easily see that Lee's words are empty. He stated that no European or Asian country would recognize an independent Taiwan. How can he know this? Certainly he does not. He was only making the statement to placate the frothy, emotional ultranationalism that has reared its ugly head in Beijing these past few years. That part of Lee's statement, and probably the rest as well, can be relegated to the junkyard of political propaganda.
But if we look at the substance of the situation, we see that Singapore has built facilities to service aircraft carriers, obviously for US use. And Singapore has an agreement to provide logistical support to the US military in times of conflict, without regard to the identity of the other parties in the conflict. Further, both Singapore and the US are basing equipment and supplies in northern Australia for joint use in a Pacific conflict. Singapore has tied its security completely to the US, so if the US defends Taiwan, Singapore will follow.
Although we know that Singapore will help the US defend Taiwan if fighting breaks out, it is nonetheless disappointing that Singapore's freshly crowned prime minister does not have the character to stand by the free and democratic people of Taiwan in words as well as action. -
i honestly doubt sg would dare to help US in anyway should war between taiwan and china break out
but it would be interesting to see how LHL can play taiji if both china and the US asks for asistance in a future war
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Totally agree, as if we will come to help Taiwan, I am sure Lee Hsien Loong will be too happy to see another compeitor melts away if China attacksOriginally posted by oldbreadstinks:i honestly doubt sg would dare to help US in anyway should war between taiwan and china break out
but it would be interesting to see how LHL can play taiji if both china and the US asks for asistance in a future war -
Another rambling from USA publish in Taipei Times.
*Ignore mode ON* -
US is full of Shit with their policeman of the world attitude.
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actually, it's easy to condemn the US for doing that...
but do you see anyone else game enough to try that?
or will they all pretend they did not see anything?
oh well.... taiwan? in statescraft, there are no such things as friends, only coincidental interests...Originally posted by the.raven:US is full of Shit with their policeman of the world attitude. -
What makes you think that if China attacks Singapore, they will over-run and take over m'sia?Originally posted by Caesar95:Totally agree, as if we will come to help Taiwan, I am sure Lee Hsien Loong will be too happy to see another compeitor melts away if China attacks
lol...
They will never attack SG, not even a regional threat..they are out of range coz they dun have air tankers..or any AWAC...
at most they fly at most can reach thailand...
their airplanes are configured to be able to fly to taiwan only..
Haha, if we support taiwan..and US...
So many China-people in Singapore..they will certainly protest lar..
You think other pro-china pple in sg won't protest meh??
My school oredi become like mini-china liao..
in fact alot alot of china pple come to singapore...
at least a few times the number of eurasian population -
anyone have any idea when this logistic agreement would expire?Originally posted by Caesar95:But if we look at the substance of the situation, we see that Singapore has built facilities to service aircraft carriers, obviously for US use. And Singapore has an agreement to provide logistical support to the US military in times of conflict, without regard to the identity of the other parties in the conflict. Further, both Singapore and the US are basing equipment and supplies in northern Australia for joint use in a Pacific conflict. Singapore has tied its security completely to the US, so if the US defends Taiwan, Singapore will follow.
or is it the type with small print at the bottom?