G-G Issues Statement on the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Meetings (11 -14 June 2008)

Statement on the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Meetings (11 -14 June 2008)
-- Office of the Governor-General Press Release

The Dominion of British West Florida commends the recent efforts of the two Chinas to progress form mutual non-recognition to mutual non-denial.

Dialogue through semi-official organisations (the SEF and the ARATS) reopened on June 12, 2008 on the basis of the 1992 Consensus, with the first meeting held in Beijing. Neither the PRC nor the ROC recognizes the other side as a legitimate entity, so the dialogue was in the name of contacts between the SEF and the ARATS instead of the two governments, though most participants were actually officials in PRC or ROC governments. Chen Yunlin, President of the ARATS, and Chiang Pin-kung, President of the SEF, signed files on June 13, agreeing that direct flights between the two sides would begin on 4 July and that Taiwan would allow entrance of up to 3000 visitors from the mainland every day.

The Dominion of British West Florida continues to take notice of, but not support, the position of the People's Republic of China with regard to the status of Taiwan.

The future of Taiwan should be decided peacefully by the peoples of both sides of the Strait, and progress like that made in recent days strengthens our hope that such a resolution can be reached in the near future.

Imperium Observes 3 Minutes of Hope for China and Burma

The Lord Imperator ~ CommiCzar of the Imperial Government of the Imperium of DeWaCo Estates requested it's Citizens and Subject to make a public expression of Hope & Help for the People of Myanmar and China this afternoon; with the observing of three minutes of silence, which began at 3:00 pm, and ended at 3:03 this afternoon.

The expression of Hope & Help was directed to those two nation's People - and NOT at either of those two nation's governments.

The "MicroMoment of Hope & Help", as it was Officially designated by the Lord Imperator ~ CommiCzar, was an expression of "hope" for the People of those two nations; as well as, an expression that all of man can "help"....if not physically and financially....maybe spiritually.

Laureate: Poetic commentary on the forthcoming Olympic games in China

From the London Daily Telegraph Blog:

U.S. Senator Barack Obama, herald of hope and change says the Olympics are nothing to do with politics, they are only a game and he will attend the opening ceremony. Yet has anything changed since Tianamen Square over twenty years ago? Are mere words on the line since the Soviets hosted the ‘games’ and were boycotted for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan? Perhaps we are all just players in a pantomime, consistently repeating a tired and worn out pattern…

Tianamen chess: the dancing dragon’s fiery storm,
In dreams, Olympic torch carried from arm to arm
Stiff politic says the flame can do no harm…
Only an ember, a game, yet chased by angry swarm.

In dreams, Olympic torch carried from arm to arm,
Yet illuminating oppression in light of bloody dawn
Only an ember, a game, yet chased by angry swarm…
Dreadful faery light for a fictional animal farm.

Yet illuminating oppression in the light of bloody dawn,
A fire of death, ice cold crushed not warm
Dreadful faery light for a fictional animal farm
See the smiling Chinese tiger of devious charm.

A fire of death, ice-cold crushed not warm
Stiff politic says the flame can do no harm,
Blame the smiling Chinese tiger of devious charm
Tianamen games: the dancing dragon’s fiery storm.

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