Cue the anger In Peking:
China's defense ministry expressed anger on Wednesday after the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to authorize the sale to Taiwan of four second-hand U.S. warships, saying the United States had ignored Chinese protests.
It isn't that we ignored China's protests. We received them, considered them, annotated them, and filed them.
May we always give China's anger all due consideration when it comes to helping a free people remain free.
So yeah, we should help Taiwan build submarines, as the Taiwanese president just asked:
"There seems to be a consensus in Taiwan that we should seek foreign technology to help us build (submarines) ourselves," the president said, adding that he hopes the American government will take that into account.
If we won't build them and if we can't convince anyone else to risk China's anger by selling them, we should help Taiwan build them. With any luck, Taiwan will have a thriving export market throughout Southeast Asia.
