In a long and tantalizingly-titled article (“Superpower Divide over Kosovo Widens“), the Associated Press is reporting that China is angry with Taiwan’s announcment that it recognizes Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence.
Did Taiwan receive one of the 192 letters that the Kosovar leadership sent out yesterday asking for recognition?
(And if not, why did Taiwan feel obliged to make this announcment?)
The AP said that “China’s Foreign Ministry criticized Taiwan for welcoming Kosovo’s independence, saying the island’s government did not meet the criteria for recognizing other countries. ‘It is known to all that Taiwan, as a part of China, has no right and qualification at all to make the so-called recognition’, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in a statement posted on the ministry’s Web site. China has good ties with Serbia and expressed ‘deep concern’ over Kosovo’s independence declaration. For Beijing, the announcement conjures up one of its greatest fears: that Taiwan could some day make a similar declaration, something China says it would meet with military force”…
This AP report is posted This here.
hahahaha
we do not recognize your right to recognize
& we will never reconcile ourselves to your recognition
hahaha
shades of monty python
inspiring me to personally recognize all recognition everywhere
& in fact all recognition & nonrecognition equally
& even just plain cognition & simple gnition
in fact if it so much as breathes
let alone gnizes
bless its little heart