no, listen.

china really, honestly needs to start behaving more responsibly. this is a growing major world power that appears to be trying to negotiate a hostage exchange with a mid-level economy, to evade the legal outcome of an ongoing extradition request. that any of this should for a moment be even given the slightest level of seriousness is preposterous.

so, you've got people like allan rock out there musing about how we're antagonizing the chinese, afraid that they might upset this country that continually acts like a rotten teenager. no. it's imperative that china be helped to grow up and behave more responsibly, and very quickly. otherwise, we're going to have a very strange world on our hands in a few decades.