U.S. policy on Taiwan sends wrong message to Japan, other allies: U.S. lawmakers

President Obama's may have miscalculated & sent a 'wrong message' to its Asian allies, guess his initial intention was to send a 'right message' to one of its key bankers that turned out to be a 'wrong-wrong message' to both. It is indeed pretty messy !

China may be the main FOREIGN creditor but it's certainly not the LARGEST creditor the U.S. owes money to. The fact that they are a creditor has no impact on foreign policy because unlike "normal" creditor/creditee relations, there's no collateral that China could confiscate should they deem the U.S. in default. This is probably more due to the realization that if China so wnted, they could rapidly overwhelm the Taiwanese military no matter WHAT technology the Taiwanese had and there's no sense giving the Chinese an up-close look at captured F-16D equipment.

Just impose sanctions on China, they will wakeup to overthrow the military dictatorship. After that assist them with building a real democracy.

Jared if you think China is bad now imagine it breaking up into say breaking up into 10 smaller countries all with nuclear weapons!!!

Good one Jared. You honestly think sanctions against China would get rid of the Communist ideology there? You need to study some history, my friend. It may seem that would be the easy way to do it, however the ruling Communists control the military. Therefore the people would be crushed in a revolt.