Mitt Romney actually said...

The Chinese Communist Party, on the other hand, believes that it should be free to usurp the will of the people of Taiwan.

Taiwan is not some small outpost. It is comprised, as the chairman indicated, of almost 25 million people.

Somehow they are getting along just fine, and the consequence was not as great as they might have once feared.

There are many fronts on which we would like China to take a different course.