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Old 2008-11-24, 00:05   Link #68
ZephyrLeanne
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Defend the integrity of the motherland. In China's case, that means no negotiation over Taiwan's status as part of the mainland. It still wants to work towards a "one country, two systems" solution, which the Taiwanese are understandably not keen about, having seen how it really works in Hong Kong.
And Tibet too.

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2) Maintain buffer zones at borders. So long as the Central Asian states are militarily weak, China doesn't have much to worry about from that region, and wouldn't bother invading any further. It already controls Xinjiang and Tibet after all, and cultivates a convenient, if sometimes embarrassing, ally in North Korea.
If in a war, Russia will try to use the Commonwealth of Independent States (NOT THE BRITISH one) to form the USSR again. Or CCCP for you Russophones there. Then that's where the problem starts.
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