Taiwan and China are still embroiled in a bitter civil war with both sides still claiming, (although less loudly on the Taiwanese side) legitimate soverignty over China. Taiwan is known as the "Republic of China" while Communist China calls itself "The People's Republic of China". So, when a blade is marked "China", it could go either way, although most Taiwanese blades will be marked Taiwanese.
Now, although I need not qualify myself before I make the following statements, It seems that I must due to the close-minded attitudes that exists here.
I am an American... born and raised New Yorker. My parents are from Taiwan, raised under the KoumingTang government, sworn enemies of the communists whom up till only a few years ago was still planning on retaking mainland China. When I wore green, Reagan was President, I trained to fight the Soviet Union. Time has certainly changed quite a bit. The Russians are our friends, China has become the bad guy, and America is still land of the Free and home of the Brave. Well, it ain't so.
Russia has introduced so much more crime to the United States since it became our "friends" in the form of Organized Crime, Prostitution, drugs and illegal guns.
China is still providing cheap labor in the form if new immigrants, and cheap goods that most Americans could not afford if they were made in the US. As for Chinese being oppressors? who have they oppressed? their own people? well, I would think they have the right to do that... We Americans have oppressed many times more than most other countries (maybe with the exception of England and France). Americans oppress their own as well. Have you neglected to read about Randy Weaver? What about Waco? or any of the BATF and FBI fiascos?
Why are we even talking about the Chinese when governments can actually trace American dollars going from gasoline purchases, into Saudi banks and then moving on to terrorist fronts? No, the news won't talk about it cause everything runs on Arab oil and the oil industry is a major lobbying force.
No, people need an innoculous villian. Governments need to create a clear enemy who they can rant and rave at safely, and of course the sheeple to believe them.
