China's response was predictable - a strong rebuke - when US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced last week that the United States was sending its UN ambassador on a visit to Taiwan, then followed that up by lifting restrictions on its officials' interactions with the self-ruled island.
From Beijing's prism, Washington was flirting with the distinct possibility of Taipei rejoining the United Nations. Why send ambassador Kelly Craft otherwise? It would have been the first such trip since 1968.
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