China doesn’t call it retaliation but it smells that way. After President Tsai Ing-wen took office in Taiwan about a month ago, China first warned her to hold talks on conditions that each side considers itself part of the same country. Her predecessor of eight years agreed and relations peaked after decades of political tension, as did trade between Taiwan and the world’s No. 2 economy. Tsai says no thanks to the one-country thing. Voters put Tsai into office partly because she had promised to protect Taiwan’s autonomy from China rather than co-mingle it. China ultimately wants to govern Taiwan despite the island’s proud democratic self-rule. The warning did little good. Then in mid-June China ...
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