Commemorating China’s 1911 revolution  From Sun to Mao to now
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article  Readers' comments    @sanmingzhi wrote:Oct 12th 2011
12:22 GMT  “nkab, then let me ask you this question： If you had
a bully of a next door neighbor holding a gun to your head (i.e.
1500 missiles pointed at you) threatening "If you don't use the
name 'Chinese Taipei', I will blow your head off", what would
you do?”  I hear you loud and clear, and you are not thinking
correctly there.  First of all, we are not neighbors, we are
brothers.  Secondly, Mainland keeps its missiles pointed at
anyway (and I have no information confirming this “1,500
missiles” thing) for the same reason IMO Taiwan is arming itself
to teeth even though Mr. Ma says his government practices “no
independence, no unification and no military fighting).  Tell me
what to do, if all of a sudden some crazy Japanese forces, and
or its master the US are coming to Taiwan to “help” Taiwan so
that it will not enterta