Describing China's general security situation as good, the 83-page document nonetheless wasted little time in denouncing Taiwan independence moves, saying the island over which Beijing claims sovereignty was a serious threat to regional stability.
We'll gloss over the fact that the only reason Taiwan is a threat to regional stability is that China will destroy Taiwan if it won't join China. Without China's threat the stability of the region would be just fine, thank you.
This claim that Taiwan is a serious threat to China is so ridiculous that even Mad Minerva can't work up a good rant about this drivel.
Yet it is drivel the Chinese believe--and will act upon--if we don't take them at their word. And it would help if Taiwan had a sense of urgency about their need to defend their island democracy.
