Obsession in Beijing.(China's obsession with Taiwan)(Brief Article) National Review | March 20, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Reading the Chinese government's 11,000-word white paper on Taiwan brings to mind G. K. Chesterton's remark that madness consists not so much in a deficiency of reason as in an excess of it. Here, in all its terrifying minuteness, is the logic of the lunatic. At one point, the white paper argues-at some length-that to take into consideration the wishes of the actual people of Taiwan would be "undemocratic." One recalls that 30 years ago, this same Chinese Communist party was solemnly instructing its people that extreme leftism was a rightist deviation. Here, naked and ...

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