Put some ice on it, China.
Oh poor baby, now go cry in your pillow. The Vatican is the only country of any importance with the balls to recognize the real China. The rest of the world should follow its lead, including our President who seems to have none on certain subjects.
So the Pope's death was an "opportunity" to improve relations with Bejing?? What would be the basis of that opportunity, is China democratizing, or lessening religious repression, or forsaking aggression against democratic Taiwan? No, the Pope's death is not an "opportunity" for leftist fantasies.
Let's all stand for TAIWAN in this incredible moment of history, President Chen of Taiwan going to Vatican, and rubbing it in the Communist's faces.
To hell with Asian Bolshevism, to hell with the Peoples' Republic of Wal-Mart.
You go guy! (President Chen).
And Taiwan's latest "crime" here is to attend the Pope's funeral and show respect? This article is a nice little glimpse at what passes for justice among the liberals. The passing of a great Pope is seen as an opportunity for China to get over on the Church and further isolate a democracy. IMHO the liberals should, and probably will, rot in Hell.
Communist China is in a cleft stick. The don't want to recognize any Church but the tame National Church, so they have rebuffed all the Vatican's diplomatic iniatives. Very possibly the Vatican would have agreed to cut ties with Taiwan like most of the rest of the world, if not for this one sticking point.
China observed what happened in Poland, and they were filled with fear. They don't want to permit any kind of free Church to take hold in their country, or they might go the same way as Poland and the Soviet Union.
China pretty much forced the other countries to switch embassies to Beijing, but they can't do that with the Vatican as long as the Vatican holds out for a free Church; and the Vatican hasn't much choice on that issue. They can't abandon the Chinese underground Church or the Chinese martyrs and saints.
Norman Greenbaum wrote that song one street over from where I live. The old Italian ladies used to throw clothespins at him.