Ma: Taiwan won't ask U.S. to fight ChinaBy Tom Evans, CNN

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

Ma: Taiwan won't ask U.S. to fight ChinaBy Tom Evans, CNN
May 1, 2010 2:04 a.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Taiwan will never ask the United States to fight against China on its behalf, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said in a CNN interview.

"We will continue to reduce the risks so that we will purchase arms from the United States, but we will never ask the Americans to fight for Taiwan," Ma told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview that aired Friday. "This is something that is very, very clear."

He added that the risk to the United States of a conflict between China and Taiwan is the lowest in 60 years as a result of his government's efforts to build a rapprochement with Beijing.

"In the last two years, as a result of our efforts to improve relations with the Chinese mainland, we have already defused the tension to a great extent," he said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/30/taiwan.china.us/index.html

[Old Troop]

1. This has to be a first!

[Lagomorph]

2. So they think they can work out their relationship without...

a war? That is good news.

[David__77]

3. Taiwan will eventually reunify.

And it will be under the "one country, two systems" plan as with Hong Kong, except Taiwan will be even more independent.