NOPE.
This means that we are getting the truth out of China...FINALLY.
Under Clinton it was like 'oh you have such a glorious country! give us XYZ and we will be soo good to you..'
This is the real China speaking...and has been since I have been around.
America is finally getting a dose of one thing: REALITY.
If America wants to play, drop the diplomacy and grab China by the gonads and squeeze until we get an agreement or blood, one or the other.
That is Chinese negotiations at its finest.
Sounds like this delegation went over unprepared. Bluffing as always, and still ignorant.
They seem like a bunch of amateurs from the sounds of it.
Scrap the diplomacy and the odd 'we want to look good to our hosts-we are not really ugly Americans' kind of mentality and and put the b*tch on her knees.
We can, and we should.
I think Chinese expected that these guys have not yet got the picture and can screw them around for a while. It is just the matter of how far they can push the envelope.
China can spot the empty bluff better than anybody else. They do it themselves all the time. For example, "We are so big and mighty. If you touch us, you would have the hell to pay...." even when they are about to implode.
Could U.S. man-handle China as Manchus or Mongols? I doubt it. It is more likely that U.S. will drag Chinese economy with it as its economy hit the bad recession. Then, U.S. could hurt badly but China could enveloped in a conflagration, after their financial system shatters.
U.S. should play N. Korea's game. Threaten to go down and drag everybody else with it. It will bring shudders to many potential rivals and adversaries of U.S..