China thinks it’s winning race against the West — but is it?

Final week’s go to to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. Home of Representatives, has worsened tensions within the Taiwan Strait and pushed Washington-Beijing relations to new lows.

Taiwan is certainly one of China’s three “core pursuits,” which signifies that the Chinese language authorities feels obliged to take sturdy motion when it perceives the prospects for unification to be threatened (leaving apart the validity of that feeling).