China has halted its military cooperation with the U.S. and threatened this week to sanction American companies involved in selling arms to Taiwan.
Beijing’s sharp reaction came after Washington announced a $6.4 billion weapons deal to Taiwan. It is something of a role reversal.
Usually, it has been the U.S. sanctioning China. But now, China is pushing back on a raft of contentious issues, from Washington’s efforts to seek sanctions against Iran to President Obama’s plan to meet Tibet’s exiled religious leader the Dalai Lama.
“Let The West Get Used To A Tough China,” was the headline this week in the Global Times, a jingoistic Chinese tabloid.
This sounds like 1936 all over again, when we were told to get used to a tough Japan, and there was nothing we could do about their China incursions. It was BS then and its BS now. The only way China will domionate the world is if we let them.