The Chinese are extremely sensitive about these nuances in diplomacy, they've been at it for four thousand years, and the rules were laid down by Kissinger and Nixon when they made the opening, and it was that we'd be allies of Taiwan, but we would have to observe certain rules… that Taiwan is part of China.

Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer (born March 13, 1950 in New York City), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and commentator. His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. Krauthammer appears regularly as a commentator on Fox News and as a weekly panelist on Inside Washington

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