Great
Britain, current nation of a previous empire/Carlos Pueblo
Each time
when I hear the disputation of the Senkaku Islands or
the Diaoyudo
Islands, I think of the Great Britain, current of
the British
Empire, the way they have resolved the identical
disputation
of the cod fishing right and the oil exploration right
both at the
North Sea with Iceland and Norway by negotiation.
Of course,
this also includes the South China Sea. Taiwan and the
U.S., a new
Nation and a current World Power are not subject to
my discussion
while China is, a current nation of a previous empire
and must behave
as a great and civil nation.
Nations of
the previous British Empire are still hanging the Empire’s
Union Jack
on their national flags nowadays. We can also see various
office buildings
such as India Office, South Africa Office etc. around the
Trafalgar
Square at Westminster district of London. English are used to
the fact of
the diminished United Kingdom and post no threat to use
force to the
Scottish independent talk. This is a totality of confidence
and maturity
as a nation of previous empire. I don’t even to mention
London and
Edinburgh, the only two cities which I have visited, even
the countryside
along the railroad is unique and
charming and I wonder
if the
British Royalty still owns the mass landscape. It doesn’t really
matter that
the Empire has provided abundant lands all over the world
for their
citizen interested.
I believe
that the U.S. has inherited the British Legal System and followed
through completely
which makes the U.S. great. Canada, Australia, New Zealand
, South
Africa, India, etc. People of the former colonies are mostly impressed the
Set up of
British rules of law. As a Taiwanese of previous Manchu Dynasty, I
Don’t have
such feeling toward China and we are not alone.
From with
Empire to without Empire, You to Wu in Daoism, the Britain take so
well and I
hope eventually the British Colleges pass it to the Chinese students one
of these
days.
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