<DIV>I beg to differ. China, like India and Russia, is _already_ a multinational state. None of these countries is much like a European nation-state, IMHO.</DIV>
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<DIV>Taiwan is tiny and ethnically and culturally homogeneous (I think). China is huge and multinational. Apples and oranges.<BR><BR><B><I>Dennis Redmond <dredmond@efn.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">> How China is going to manage that<BR>> transition to forms of political institutions appropriate to 21 century<BR>> is hard to imagine.<BR><BR>They have Taiwan's example, right next door. The long-term question facing<BR>East Asia is how to construct an EU-style multinational state.<BR><BR>-- DRR<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talkte.<BR><BR>-- DRR<BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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