And this generation of Americans knows little and cares less about Communist China. And that is that China is not just some sort of Asian Sweden that never quite got around to forming more than one political party. I honestly believe I could mount a better case economically and militarily for helping Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in the 1930s than Communist China today. Little did we realize at the time how lacking was the fighting will of those Nazi neighbors. First liberal California senator Dianne Feinstein almost sends me to the Mayo Clinic for a hearing check when she urges our legislators not to make that holiday junket to Communist China.
China is plugged into our socket.
Here's my plan. Their plane hit our plane over international waters. Tell the Chinese that the democracies learned in the 1930s not to pretend it's raining when dictators spit in their face. We had intended to let all that rich evidence go, since we didn't want to appear to be persecuting or prosecuting former president Bill Clinton overmuch. Something came up off the coast of Hainan that changes our imperatives.