f you saw a hungry, angry, trapped bear would you (A) poke it in the nose? Or (B) try to tranquilize and contain it?
My party of choice’s leader, Nancy Pelosi, picked option A last week. Her excursion to Taiwan was a reckless slap in the face for an angry, unstable, prideful, nuclear panda. It was a dumb move. And it came just at the moment when we could have used China’s financial woes as leverage to curb their expansionism and human rights violations.