Hong Kong and Taiwan

China just took Hong Kong. And here's what we did about it. A couple of sharpish statements from President Biden. Nothing else. How did people in Hong Kong respond? Well, students demonstrated. The demonstrations are over. They've been suppressed. Now we come to Taiwan. China is upping the ante. Surely they're talking to each other. I think of another country surrounded by hostile powers. Israel devotes more than 5% of its GDP to its defense. Taiwan barely over 2%. There's some sense in which it feels as though there's a lack of seriousness. A willingness one way or another to do the deal. We can sort this out. What we're interested