At 06:58 AM 10/1/99 -0700, Bard deLong wrote: >I don't know. The Kuomintang was a strongly nationalist and >anti-imperialist party too. > >It certainly has done a better job governing Taiwan--which is >nobody's colony or neo-colony these days--than the CCP has done >governing China... Ah Brad, you are comparing apples and oranges again. Anyone can drive a passenger car, but it ain't so easy to drive a semi-trailer without automatic transmission and power-assisted gizmos. What makes you think that the Kuomintang would do a better job in the mainland? wojtek