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Re: Taiwan, capitalism, socialism, and mass murder by K.S.TSO 27 April 2001 08:56 UTC |
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Dear WSN,
Questions were raised on Taiwan and Prof. Thomas D.Hall provided meaningful insights. If it is in your archive, it is dated 17 March 2000 in response to "China the Hegemon?" Perhaps it is worth while to learn a little more about Taiwan now, since it is big business selling gunboats (as in gunboat diplomacy) in the context of Core/ Peripheral discussions. K.S.Tso Alan Spector wrote: Note from Alan Spector:The following excerpt is from a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) project on the history of Taiwan. I found it interesting, because in all the debates over the various repressive measures taken by capitalist and socialist regimes, there is an overwhelming tendency to minimize or completely cover up massacres by capitalist regimes which are labeled "democratic" while roften inflating statistics on the deaths caused by socialist regimes. For example, Cuba is continually referred to as a regime which "violates human rights" and the U.S./British media continues to focus on the deaths of perhaps 1,000 people during the Tienamein Square protests. In the past, we have mentioned obvious incidents, such as the anti-communist repression in El Salvador and Guatemala which killed perhaps 180,000 people, the U.S. organized fascist coup in Chile which killed tens of thousands, and the U.S. organized fascist coup in Indonesia that killed perhaps 500,000! Here is another story. Considering the relatively small population of Taiwan at the time, a "massacre of perhaps 18,000-30.000 " people makes any discussion of Castro's Cuba, or even gangster Milosevic's Yugoslavia look pale by comparison. But yet the drumbeat goes on about how "capitalism" is "inherently more favorable to human rights.....etc. etc." I'm sure there are dozens more countries where situations like this happened, in addition, of course to the other unnecessary deaths from things like measles (40,000 in Ethiopia alone), malaria, cholera, AIDS, etc. etc. These situations should be discussed more actively in courses we teach.============================================================================http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/asia_pacific/2000/taiwan_elections2000/1945_1949.stmWith the end of World War II Taiwan was handed over to the control of mainland China, under the Kuomintang (nationalist) government of General Chiang Kai-shek. The move brought to an end more than 50 years of Japanese control. |
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