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US-China Foreign Policy. Just One Thought.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

I have the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post in my feed-reader, all set to pull up China related articles. For the last couple days, these three sites have had a number of articles relating to the US selling a massive amount of arms to Taiwan and also to the US trying to get China to agree to sanctions on Iran. The contrast is bizarre. It is as though we are stabbing someone right in the gut, and as that person lays bleeding on the ground, we ask if he might be so kind as to loan us a few bucks I mean, if we want China to side with us on Iran, should we not be giving it something in return. Now maybe the Taiwan sales had to have been timed the way that they were, but I for one cannot help but thinking that something is wrong here. Are we just not all that concerned about a murderous bunch of Islamic extremists having a nuclear bomb or do we just have problems prioritizing?

Full post as published by China Law Blog on January 30, 2010 (boomark / email).