Wednesday, January 24, 2018

China-U.S. Rubs Only Get More Raw


Tim Ferguson, Forbes


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If China’s long game to subsume Taiwan in fact as well as in form is to be hastened, as various indicators suggest, this poses inescapable menace. Although without diplomatic heft, Taiwan represents both advanced capitalism and a democratic ideal that will be difficult for any American government to abandon. Congress remains a hotbed of support for the Taiwanese, with a remarkably bipartisan disregard for Beijing. (Only Russia seems to deflect the popular animus.) The considerable resources that China has poured into often-clumsy public diplomacy in the U.S. ought to be regarded as one more wasteful state enterprise. ...

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