Now take a look at the UK Telegraph today:
China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 9:54am BST 08/08/2007
The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
I wonder how soon it will be, when they move to pluck that Taiwan plum, and start exercising that new techno-military muscle they have been accumulating.
Sigh.