<p>The Chinese are not a horrible people. Many of my friends are Chinese. Although, a few of them when college-obsessed can get a bit ... well, annoying (for the lack of a better word.. okay, that's just one person), they are indeed a good people. =)</p>
<p>Gxing, comparing the South and Taiwan is like comparing Apples to Monster Trucks. Your analogy doesn't work. Perhaps American seceding from Great Britain -- that is indeed, the better analogy, minus the fighting that took place during the Revolutionary War. (And I am quite sure the Central Military Commission would love to draw guns had it the opportunity.)</p>
<p>La societe est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes. Society is the union of the people and not the people themselves. When a union of people decide to stand up, and split away (as we did during the American Revolution and Taiwan is doing by taking a political-ideological stance) then they are no longer part of the union they had split away from (e.g. Great Britain, and now China).</p>
<p>China is not raising its armies en masse just to invade Taiwan. China's government is not one big institution of tyranny, but it does have some elements of it severely corrupted and skewed in political perception. However, the people are a good people, and I am praying that the trend towards a more liberal China continues within the span of the next... thirty years?</p>
<p>I mean liberal as in governmentally, not ... the population.</p>