“Sneaky’’. That’s how China views the visit of Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to the US. So sneaky, in fact, that it’s a provocation deserving of “resolute countermeasures”. Her trip is hardly under the radar, so Beijing doesn’t mean “sneaky” as in slipping in unnoticed, more that Washington is attempting to normalise such visits as part of a strategy to end its “One China” policy without officially announcing it. Under “One China” the US recognises that the government of the People’s Republic of China is the only government of China.
Michel Barnier as France’s PM: are they having us on?
Brits who view the appointment of Barnier as a wind-up are flattering themselves. The present crisis is all about France.
