Beijing's bellicosity wins friends and allies -- for America. Danke schoen, Kaiser Hu Jintao.
Incidentally -- and I speak only hypothetically -- if China is justified in waging economic war against Japan over the Senkaku Islands, wouldn't America be justified in waging economic war against China for its currency manipulation? Robert J. Samuelson at the Washington Post seems to think so.
[Let's be clear though on this last point: As an economic subsidiary of Communist China, Taiwan would suffer terribly from a Sino-American trade war.]
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