Indeed, I have already proposed quite the opposite. Our desperate need, nationally, is that our leadership would walk in truth towards the China that is - not the China of our own materialist ambitions or democratic fancies. We, like our unbelieving neighbors, are often tempted to view truth as one method among many for pursuing a nation's affairs. This is fallacious. Scripture teaches us that God honors a walk of truth at all dimensions of human culture, from national to ecclesiastical to personal.
Truth is the most practical course of all.
It is the only practical course. The early signs for the new American administration are not positive with respect to China. While President Bush demonstrated a number of sterling character qualities in this mini-crisis, he was not willing to begin from the simplest expression of truth about the causes of the incident itself. The course of truth appears risky but is far safer than the resort to human cleverness.