The Thrashing of Taiwan
A capitalist system provides for opportunity and competition within a nation or group of nations; however it also produces certain preoccupations with economic gain. This brutal fact of capitalism became evident with the United States’ response to Lee Teng-hui’s statement regarding the relationship between Taiwan and China. As the editors stated, “The economicist proclivities of the administration’s foreign policy are nowhere more clear or more shameful than in its policy toward China.” This policy brings out the truth about the capitalist preoccupations of even the United States’ government. The focus of the Clinton administration’s goals in dealing with China became crystal clear in its response to Lee Teng-hui. Teng-hui’s statement was one intended to promote the political liberalization that is intertwined with democracy; the same political liberalization and democracy whose values are so strongly upheld and revered by the American people and that provide the basis for the U.S.