What do these sentences mean?

Question

Taiwan, with U.S , chooses as a first step diplomatic protest, in the hope that the antagonistic firing will cease after the election. Doing nothing clearly would have suggested that the misile testing was acceptable, which it was not.


i'm a foreigner.

Please, translate literally

Doing nothing clearly would have suggested that the misile testing was acceptable, which it was not.

in this sentece,,What does "which" mean?

Answer 1

Rather than protest directly itself, the US encouraged Taiwan to register its protest to the missile testing. After the election (not sure which one) the testing may stop anyway, but someone needed to do something rather than remain totally silent and send the wrong message that nobody cared.

'which' is referring to the whole phrase, 'the missile testing was acceptable'

Answer 2

It means.

The United States and Taiwan started a protest against missile testing. Hoping that it would stop after the elections. The reason they did this was because if they did nothing it would be saying that the missile testing was OK.

Which is not.

The writer is stating his or her opinion that the missile testing isn't right.

using definition 3


Main Entry: 1which
Pronunciation: 'hwich, 'wich
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, of what kind, which, from Old English hwilc; akin to Old High German wilIh of what kind, which, Old English hwA who, gelIk like -- more at WHO, LIKE
1 : being what one or ones out of a group -- used as an interrogative
2 : WHICHEVER
3 -- used as a function word to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause and to modify a noun in that clause and to refer together with that noun to a word or word group in a preceding clause or to an entire preceding clause or sentence or longer unit of discourse

Answer 3

In this in regard to North Korea's nuclear testing? Post more of the article and you'll get a better answer.

Taiwan and US decided to yell and scream (diplomatic protest) in the hopes that their angry reaction (antagonstic firing) will stop after the election. They couldn't just say nothing, because that would be like saying it was an ok thing to do (testing was acceptable).

Answer 4

which refers back to 'clearly would have suggested that the missile testing was acceptable'....'which it was not' negates the phrase.......Try to think of it as "Doing nothing clearly would have suggest that the missile testing was acceptable. It was not."---which just is part of a parenthetical expression--ie it really isn't necessary for the understanding of the sentence...hope this helps.