They might, but I think that China’s type of deception is different than most democratic governments’. They would be more likely to simply pretend the story hadn’t happened, because it doesn’t fit their narrative and goals. See how long it takes you to find the story on SCMP. It took me quite a while.
China’s deception on Taiwan is trying to find ways of doing less aggression so as not to provoke a costly conflict with the US, while presenting a posture that they are being extremely aggressive and the US is scared of them. Wanting to fight an unpopular war, and finding an acceptable reason to seize on to actualize it, is much more in line with the US’s normal behavior than it is with China’s. China’s situation with Taiwan, at least so far, has been largely the opposite.
They might, but I think that China’s type of deception is different than most democratic governments’. They would be more likely to simply pretend the story hadn’t happened, because it doesn’t fit their narrative and goals. See how long it takes you to find the story on SCMP. It took me quite a while.
China’s deception on Taiwan is trying to find ways of doing less aggression so as not to provoke a costly conflict with the US, while presenting a posture that they are being extremely aggressive and the US is scared of them. Wanting to fight an unpopular war, and finding an acceptable reason to seize on to actualize it, is much more in line with the US’s normal behavior than it is with China’s. China’s situation with Taiwan, at least so far, has been largely the opposite.