THERE IS NO COUNTRY:

Separatists (Richard Halloran, 4/13/08, Real Clear Politics)

The editor of a Chinese trade magazine sipped her tea one afternoon several years ago in a Shanghai tea shop and said: "I think Taiwan should be part of China but I don't think it's worth fighting over." She went on: "But if we give up Taiwan, then Tibet will try to break away and we will have separatists among the Uyghur's in western China and among the Mongols in Inner Mongolia and the Koreans in Manchuria."

She lamented: "If we let them all go, what will happen to my country?"

It will devolve into a more natural nation. But that's inevitable anyway.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 13, 2008 11:10 PM