China launches first aircraft carrier

'Reasonable standard living' is also subjective. As pointed out by the mere fact that you used "prefer" in your sentence. A person can 'prefer' to live under any condition that they choose, your standards can mean nothing to them.

I put the apostrophes because I am not entirely sure if the democratic structure is the same as the U.S. in Taiwan. According to what I understand it has some questionable variations. But then again like I said I don't really know... this is probably bad for me to say, but maybe we should ask pottman about this.

And i suppose that my "claim taiwan would be better under chinese rule" you could make the statement that africa should be annexed, so it's a useless argument i suppose.

Not necesarily. Annexing Africa is in an entirely different catagory. To the Chinese people, it would be imperialism and expansionism, neither of which appeal to them. Annexing Taiwan would fall under the catagory of "reuniting the people and the country." The intent would be entirely different.

Oh well, America would "win" in the end.

Seriously? You went BACK to the China v U.S. thing? I've got to be honest, I think that we need a thread on this or else stop posting here. I'm getting sick of seeing this topic line.

Yep, why don't you then.