.... There is no reason to demonise China’s Communist rulers as they grapple with the genuine challenge of modernising the most populous country on the planet.China did not warn other users of space when it fired a ballistic missile to destroy an old weather satellite in a space warfare test last year, nor did it apologise for the resulting cloud of orbiting debris that continues to endanger other satellites. Back on earth, China has vigorously pursued its dubious claim to the entire South China Sea, including oil fields in Vietnamese waters, thereby alarming international oil companies such as BP and ExxonMobil and provoking protests outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi. China has denied Hong Kong, a supposedly autonomous region, the right to full democracy before 2017. It has backed up its threats to seize Taiwan by staging amphibious invasion exercises and increasing to 1,300 the number of missiles pointing at the island. And it has resisted a resolution of its longstanding border dispute with India.
No? Looks to me like he totally blows off (1) recurrent threats to nuke the U.S. (2) Recurrent hostile actions to our national security everywhere, from massive espionage to theft of our vital industries, and (3) recurrent attempts to obtain by heavy money-losing subsidy...significant vectors of supply into our food chain.... not to mention the continued embrace of totalitarianism by them...and their ilk abroad (Fidel, Chavez, Adhamanawhackhjob).
The Arsenal of Communism Arises. And he refuses to face it that this isn't about nationalism. It is about the Communist Party...not just surviving but triumphing.
Guess China is not participating in our world-wide war on terrorism except as our loan shark.