Gordon Chang writes how we reward the Chinese after they engage in unfriendly behavior, that they and other Asian countries see us as weak, that the Chinese are unimpressed by displays of friendship, and that they are ruthlessly pragmatic.
It's time for the U.S. to abandon its childish faith in "communication" as the solution to all problems between states. Sometimes, the parties understand each other exactly. The question is then, "What are you going to do about it?" not, "Can't we just talk some more?"
It's like our relations with the Saudis. We know damn well they are financing Islamicist pricks all over the world but we don't DO anything. Oh, excepting George Bush holding hands with the chief Wahhabi in All the World, a Saudi . . . and having a friendly chat with him.
God help the Saudis if they were Serbs. We'd turn the Black Stone into 10,000-degree vapor and force every last Saudi to crawl from Mecca to St. Peters.
"Miscomprehending China. They don't want to be our friends." By Gordon G. Chang, The Daily Standard, 3/5/08.
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