If you offer China your little finger - the country will end up taking your whole arm. To be coined here at PN as The Pinkie Paradox. Now China is really boosting its muscles with the USA, playing hardball. The 'offence' being President Barack Obama's decision to sell $6 billion dollars worth of weapons to Taiwan, an old thorn in the eye of China. So now China's feelings are hurt. According to Chinese analyst, Victor Gao, a director of the China National Association of International Studies, in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Right. If you start with the old feelings argument, how can you ever solve the problem with political means? And guess what - the US feelings are hurt too. And more importantly, so is the country's sound mind. If China wants the pinkie, take it. But the country won't win the arm's race - as it were - over Taiwan. There's just that legitimacy issue with the international society to solve first. Play the economic card, and the US legitimacy card will trumph. Play the power card, and the US power card will trumph again. Because the threat is just what nobody can stomach. And China knows this. This is why they're only being offered the pinkie every time. China just has to solve that little paradox first - The Pinkie Paradox.
For further information, please see:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/02/04/china.relations/index.html
Right. If you start with the old feelings argument, how can you ever solve the problem with political means? And guess what - the US feelings are hurt too. And more importantly, so is the country's sound mind. If China wants the pinkie, take it. But the country won't win the arm's race - as it were - over Taiwan. There's just that legitimacy issue with the international society to solve first. Play the economic card, and the US legitimacy card will trumph. Play the power card, and the US power card will trumph again. Because the threat is just what nobody can stomach. And China knows this. This is why they're only being offered the pinkie every time. China just has to solve that little paradox first - The Pinkie Paradox.
For further information, please see:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/02/04/china.relations/index.html