Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Bare Our Necks to the Blade?

The Chinese have expressed their negative opinion on American and allied missile defenses (tip to Weekly Standard blog):

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang said China "always believes that setting up a global missile defense system, including deploying such a system in some regions of the world or conducting cooperation in this field, is detrimental to global strategic balance and stability, undermines mutual trust among countries and affects regional stability."


I mean, really. If we and the Japanese can't trust the Chinese to never use or threaten to use the nukes they have aimed at us, who can we trust?

And those boy scouts in Pyongyang and Tehran are just victims of circumstances given a bum rap by the man.

I can just hear the bonds of mutual trust breaking asunder at our rash acts of defending ourselves.

I think the correct Department of State response to this Chinese criticism is "nice doggie."