Paul V. Kane wants [NYT] Obama to give up our alliance with Taiwan in exchange for debt forgiveness. Joe Weisenthal finds the idea ridiculous:
[I]n short, what Kane is advocating is an abdication of our strategic self-direction in exchange for extinguishing a threat (Chinese holdings of U.S. debt) that doesn't exist. What's scary is not that this will ever happen — it won't — but that the size of the debt is causing people to think loonier and loonier things. Eventually we might do something really dumb.
Blake Hounshell nods. Fallows thinks the above video captures the reality of the Taiwan situation better than Kane does.
The Dish 