This is bad news. We're making enemies all over the world. What happened to our great nation?

This story probably isn't that big of a deal. When I first saw it, I was taken aback also, but then I thought about it. We've been selling weapons to Taiwan for a long time, and even once in a while China makes a big deal about it. Same as how every once in a blue moon we will complain about their human rights record or oppressive government.

China is just as tied in with us economically as anyone else. More so even. If we fall, they will eventually fall. My dad, who is a pretty astute observer of the economy, told me that his opinion was this bail out was more or less to pay off debts owed to China and Saudi Arabia. Both of those countries were also packaged large amounts of these CDS's or whatnot.

So China is probably just pissed off at being owed a lot of money (and being robbed also) by the corrupt and greedy and possibly soon-to-be bankrupt American capitalist military-industrial-government complex and are rattling their large sabre.

I do think though that Taiwan is none of our business. Having the United States cease to be Team America: World Police is also a high priority of the next government.

[edit on 7-10-2008 by Mad Max]

Yes we don't want Iran with weapons from Russia or China, but Iran is a recognized country, where as Taiwan is NOT, not even by the U.S.. We suspended formal diplomatic contact with them under Reagan so we could start selling weapons to China, which is probably alot more of a money maker. Also, since both Bush's, and Clinton followed suit, we are not in a position to piss off the Chinese, soldier for soldier, person for person were better off, but we are on the verge of a macroeconomic collapse, with the E.U. as the best per capita now and the Chinese with the largest total economy we may want to rethink some of our decisions.