"The Taiwan Relations Act of the United States is always a hidden danger to Sino-US relations."
Zhao Ziyang, then China's premier, to NBC's Tom Brokaw, 1987. Asked what troubles him about relations with Washington :
> "the major obstacle or the greatest difficulty and the thing which we worry about is the question of Taiwan"
> "The United States is deliberating for the adoption of some trade protectionist legislations."
Taiwan and tariffs. 39 years later, the same two problems. Who keeps creating them ?