China Talking

Taiwain's Wu Poh-hsiung's meeting with Hu Jintao recently and the talks which have since taken place have to be welcomed for, however absurd it might sound, the reality remains that the PRC would go to war over Taiwan and although even more absurd, if that were to happen, the United States would probably defend Taiwan.

It is all a wee bit weird anyway as the Republic of China's (Taiwan) official claims to the whole of China have not been revised. Furthermore, one of the conclusions of that claim being successfully pursued can be drawn from the map above; the ROC's "China" includes Outer Mongolia, Northern Burma and Tuva (Russian territory). Anyway, nice to see both sides talking and we at least know that, should the ROC ever bring about unification on its terms, they are hardly going to be doing summersaults in Ulan Bator city centre.