Not Buying That

I think the Chinese think we don’t talk to one another.  The Wall Street Journal laid out today The story of what lengths China will go to to make policy go their way is extraordinary.  China has told airlines that they have to show the destination Taiwan as part of China and not a separate country.  As the Journal astutely points out, domestic flights fly out of domestic terminals but the Chinese fly flights to Taiwan out of the international terminal.

The Chinese seem willing to look stupid to achieve their objective, in this case making Taiwan part of China.  They don’t even realize how stupid they look when they take steps like this.  We have to start pushing back on such dumb things and getting our businesses to tell them to pound sand.  The Chinese are not the only people with principles.

Taiwan is not part of China and nothing they do will make it one.  The Chinese invented and perpetuate a One China policy like it was the will of the other countries of the world.  Half of those countries could care less so will go along to avoid controversy.  The other half have heard this kind of stuff so often they try to ignore it.  We need more countries to do neither of those things.  We can stop any country that treats Taiwan as part of China will be called out on it.  Publish the company name and let business know that the behavior will not be tolerated or accepted.  Then, let’s sell more weapons to Taiwan for “self defense”, and keep doing that until China drops the requirement it out on our airlines.  China’s demands sound like small children trying to get their way by crying.  Most of us know what to do when that happens.