China Hand seems blissfully unaware of nationalistic elements amongst the Chinese. Not that the US doesn't have them, too: if it weren't for 9/11, the Bush administration would probably be beating the drum to "contain" China as a threat. And not so much as an economic threat, but as a military threat. He writes of the US squandering China's good will with the bombing of the embassy in Belgrade and the spy plane incident. He can't believe these were intentional. And I can't believe that Americans are as thin-skinned about foreign criticism as the Chinese are. In short, he wants to blame the US and Taiwan, but doesn't like to blame China.