China has publicly stated that not even the US is willing to trade Los Angeles for Taiwan. (insinuating nuclear retaliation for interference with Taiwan) Think about it like this. Assume that Texas exercised its right to secede from the United States (i am not an advocate of this...just an example). Then assume that the United States was not happy about that for obvious reasons. Then assume that Texas established diplomatic ties with China in order to make their decision permanent. Then assume that China started arming Texas with all sorts of weapons as Texas and USA were going through talks. Point is, our presence in the middle east is already an encroachment on both Russia and China's spheres of influence as super powers. Then we have we have McCain shooting his mouth off about how we aren't leaving the middle east until he can roller skate through bagdad in a mini skirt. Couple that with our arming of Taiwan and you can see how they aren't really happy with that. We didn't like it when Russia started building military facilities in Cuba right? I don't advocate taking a risk on a foreign nation with Los Angeles hanging in the balance. Although....lol