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The crux of this report is not the greenhouse effect in newly industrialised countries, the fight against poverty, capital punishment in China or the dictatorship in Burma. These comments serve only as padding for the EU's stance favouring Taiwan over China. Taiwan has recently changed from a place of exile from the old pre-1949 Chinese regime into a country in which the majority is non-Chinese, where the old
party has lost power to movements of indigenous Taiwanese, and which is looking more and more like Europe and Japan from a political and economic point of view. The majority will probably now choose to become an independent state in a referendum. Not even so much because this has actually been the case for 53 years, but rather because they never felt much kinship with the Chinese mainland. The fact that the previous regime in Taiwan had for decades sought foreign backing to recapture the mainland is a problem. The existence of two Germanies, two Vietnams and two Yemens ultimately came to an end because one was able to swallow up the other. The EU Member States withdrew their recognition of Taiwan in favour of China. If a majority of the European Parliament now chooses to recognise two states after all, the debate about this must be conducted openly instead of being concealed."@en1
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