Re: ‘What has happened to the Taiwan Affairs Act’, March 23, 2006
I don’t think it wise for Canada to get involved in the Taiwan affairs. From a historical perspective, no one denies that Taiwan used to be a part of China. It was ceded to Japan when China lost the first Sino-Japanese War. China regained Taiwan after the Second Sino-Japanese War.
One would also agree that the separation of Taiwan from China is the result of both the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) and the ideological confrontations between the East and the West during the Cold War.
Too much international involvement in the Taiwan issue would undoubtedly make the Chinese people recall the bitter humiliation and exploitation they had suffered from imperialism for more than a century since the first Anglo-Sino Opium War. It is true that China now is ruled by an autocratic regime, but when you ask any Chinese whether he or she would see the reunification of Taiwan with China, I bet you would get a firm and positive answer. If Taiwan, supported by western countries, was to be declared an independent country, Chinese would take it as a new humiliation. If the two took action to fight against the humiliation, it would not be a good thing for the world.
Chinese are a patient nation. They will eventually findthier own solution to the issue with their wisdom accumulated over a period of 5000 years of recorded history.
What doesn’t appear in any Mary Kay literature is HOW these women are getting to National Director ‘fast’. It fails to indicate that too many reps purchase their status through inventory loading and then in order to maintain their status, they purchase more to make up for what units do not do.
With all the ‘orders’ from distributors to attain and maintain status, cars and production levels, MK then boasts of those as being ‘sales’ as if they are sales to the ‘public’. The ‘other side’ of MK is never mentioned and that is the side that reveals ‘how’ they do what they do.
Re: ‘Battered victims twice over’, Dec 22, 05
My sympathies lie with the battered and deceived women in Canada. If these Canadian women lived in another country, I believe that if they asked for protection from the Canadian Embassy they would get help. Why not protect them in their own country? All their debts for sponsorship should be transferred to the abusive spouse back dated to their inception. We ought to show compassion for the plight of these women. Let the men pay.
