China has rebuked Japan for issuing a tourist visa to former pro-independence president of Taiwan

Story dated 16 December 2004

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a Beijing news conference. "We think Japan's agreeing to let him (Lee) visit is itself a challenge to China's unification efforts and is a type of support for and indulgence of Taiwan's independence forces." Message to China: grow up you big babies. Japan can allow whoever they want into their country so long as the person is not a criminal. China is an imperialist power and their desire to annex Taiwan should not be tolerated. What would the rest of the world say if we decided that Cuba was a wayward territory of the U.S. and sought to annex it? By the way, Britain and Spain ought to listen to the citizens of Gibraltar instead of ignoring them in their negotiations to return the territory to Spain. It is also my opinion that Britain ought to have allowed the citizens of Hong Kong to vote on whether they wanted to be part of China. And why won't anyone discuss the partitioning of Iraq into separate Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish states?

posted by The Sovereign Editor | 11:37 PM

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