Mitt Romney said...

My assessment is that there have been nations that have severed relations with Taiwan but have not gone the other way.

I would think that China's calculation about action of a hostile nature against Taiwan would encompass not just military...

I, for one, was surprised to see their treatment of Australia, for instance, and wondered how that could possibly be in ...

It would seem that they are succeeding in that effort, and we are probably not being quite as effective.