13 December 2018 - Meng Wanzhou

I thought China operated on the principle that a friend cannot show respect, only an underling. Elect a recalcitrant leader in Taiwan or give a Nobel prize to a Chinese dissident, and China does not spare the rod or spoil the child. Now I see that it is more a “there can be only one” attitude. If another country does a China-like thing, such as asking Canada to arrest Meng Wanzhou—treating an important Chinese the way China treats everybody who doesn’t obey—then China turns up the hypocrisy to 11.