The
incumbent President of the Republic of China on Taiwan of the pro-independence
party was re-elected late last week. She
has pursued a policy of maintaining the status quo of de facto independence
from Communist China, which wishes to seize the province to which the Chinese
Nationalists fled after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Communist China, which is diplomatically
aggressive in thwarting recognition of Taiwan , backed the Nationalists, who oppose
independence, which prompted the passage of the law I posted about in my last
post against interference from Communist China.
Longtime
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman died Friday.
After seizing power from his father in 1970, he modernized the Arabian Gulf State
while maintaining its heritage and establishing Oman as an oasis of stability. Qaboos became noted as a neutral mediator and
message-bearer who managed to be an ally of the United States while also having
good relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. He also had warm relations with Saudi Arabia and generally with other Gulf States , while remaining neutral in the Arab-Iranian
war in neighboring Yemen . Qaboos was hailed internationally after his
death as a peacemaker. His named
successor, a cousin, promised yesterday to continue his predecessor’s policies.
There were
protests in Iran yesterday after the Islamic Republic admitted it had shot down
a civilian Ukrainian airliner en route to Canada after takeoff from Teheran
earlier in the week while firing missiles at American bases in Iraq in
retaliation for the killing by the United States a few days earlier of the
Iranian general in Iraq who led the theocratic tyranny’s state sponsorship of
terrorism. Iran had denied responsibility for
three days for the apparently unintentional downing of the airliner, despite
mounting evidence. Questions have been
raised why the Islamic Republic did not close its airspace during its missile
attack and why it did not tell the truth.
Ukraine and Canada called upon Iran to compensate the families of
their citizens killed. There were no
survivors.
The Iranian
general who was killed was the most effective terrorist in the world for
decades and had directly or indirectly engaged in many other militant acts of
violent jihad that had killed hundreds of Americans. There have been attacks on American Naval
forces in the Arabian Gulf, a Saudi oil refinery, an American contractor in Iraq and the invasion of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad since last year,
either by Iranian forces or their terrorist proxies. The head of the pro-Iranian militants in Iraq was killed
in the same strike.
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