When NATO bombed Kosovo and the United Nations sent troops to East Timor, if the world can intervene in Yugoslavia or Indonesia, skeptics said why not in Tibet? Or Chechnya?

At the time, the answer seemed obvious, China, and Russia, unlike Yugoslavia or Indonesia, are too big to push around.

The west seemed to agree that human rights may be important, but good relations with Moscow and Beijing are more important.

It also was condemned by critics who said the world had not intervened in time to stop the massacre in Rwanda, nor to stop the Chinese misrule of Tibet and the Russian killing in Chechnya.

In other words, these critics said human rights triumphed sovereignty only in white, European countries that were not strong enough to fight back.

After Somalia, no major nations have been willing to get involved in Africa, even to stop the slaughter in Rwanda, nor have they done more than frown at countries, like Russia or China, that can fight back with nuclear arms. Human right must complete ruin under the law of communism.

Having won Chinese support for Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, Russia President Boris Yeltsin lashed out yesterday (Dec. 9, 1999) at U.S. President Bill Clinton reminding Washington that Moscow still has a nuclear arsenal.

"It seems Mr. Clinton has forgotten Russia is a great power that possesses a nuclear arsenal. We aren't afraid all of Clinton's anti-Russian position," Yeltsin said. "Jiang Zemin completely understands and fully supports Russia's actions in combating terrorism and extremism in Chechnya," Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told reporters afterwards.

In Taiwan vice President Lien Chan, the ruling party's presidential candidate, said on Dec. 8, 1999, that Taiwan, in the face of a growing military threat from the PRC, should set an "aggressive defense" policy by strengthening its "second strike" capability through the development of a long-range, surface to surface missile.

Taiwan has rights to effectively counter strike only strongest power can protect Taiwanese people against PRC attack. We want resuming dialogue with mainland China, but unfortunately Beijing has refused to reopen dialogue with Taiwan, insisting that president Lee Teng-hui must first retract his "two states" remark. Beijing can't recognize the fact of reality of democratic Taiwan, should make it impossible for peaceful unification at recent period.

In my view, the Taiwanese nationalism is far more gravitated by developing of human rights.

Taiwanese people awakened the realization because of democratic procedure in its bitter life-and-death struggles over transforming democracy.

MOSCOW, Dec. 8 ---
President Boris Yeltsin headed Wednesday to mainland China to secure support from a fellow nuclear power for Russia's much-criticized military offensive in Chechnya and to demonstrate his physical fitness to rivals back home.

The Russian leader, who spent all last week in hospital with pneumonia, was to seek the blessing of his Chinese counterpart, President Jiang Zemin, for Moscow's military offensive against the Chechen rebel capital Grozny, to counter harsh Western criticism.

Yeltsin, 68, may indeed find a communist Chinese leadership with few qualms over how Moscow chooses to finally quash Islamic rebels holed up in Grozny.

The two countries do share convictions on matters concerning separatism: not only should separatist movements be quelled, the international community has no business meddling in "internal affairs," both have said.

And both feel the United States should stop "policing" world conflicts.

"The issue of Chechnya is purely an internal affair for Russia," mainland Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday.

"The Chinese side understands and supports Russian efforts to maintain its national unification and territorial integrity," Zhang added.

This the way of Asia's democracy, Asian nations are becoming more receptive to demands for greater democracy, but cultural and economic forces are influencing its advance that focused on links between democracy and prosperity and the forms of "democracy" practiced in the region.

However, Confucianism; the common philosophy of mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan were not incompatible with democracy, because Confucianism was created by kingdom theory.

For about the democratic voting system that Asian democracy were adding the different traditions would melt into something that was "neither traditionally western nor traditionally Confucian."

On the other hand, when country has become a democracy, it has been an "elected oligarchy", with which politicians used to enrich themselves. This would be cured only be the "maturation of democratic practice" by human rights' education.