Trying to Have it Both Ways

Even foreign reporters can be arrested and held on trumped-up charges as has been reported by the Singapore's Straits Times and the New York Times.  Ching Cheong, 56, was first detained in April in Southern China, and formally arrested in August.  His crime?  Spying for Taiwan.  If anything points to Taiwan being a foreign country rather than a province of China, this does.  China is the only country I know of that can be so two-faced as to claim Taiwan is a province one day and jail someone for spying for that province the next.  It only makes sense if you belong to the Chinese Communist Party and live in a paranoid world where you distrust people you claim to be part of your own country.  They’re either not part of your country or you’re fooling yourself when you say they are.