[krapp]

>The world's democratic governments generally oppose the overthrow of democratic governments by dictators who want to grab some place by killing the locals.

Not only do Western governments not actually oppose this, they have orchestrated the overthrow of democratic governments and installed dictatorships numerous times when it suited their interests.

The actual Western perspective is not to give a damn who runs Taiwan or how many locals they kill as long as we can do favorable business with them. Although the Red Menace rhetoric does play well at home.

[tim333]

Well some of them. I'm western and have friends in Taiwan and want the place to do ok and am not worried about the business side.

[krapp]

Fair enough, I'm mostly talking about governments not people.