Gunboat policy – The table turns

1996 was a watershed in gunboat diplomacy between China and the USA. The
Taiwan Strait crisis saw Clinton ordering two aircraft carriers to sail
through the strait in a show of force. China was humiliated in a sense
as it did not have an answer to such display of military might that
reminded them of the foreign naval invasion of China in the 19th
Century. The Chinese took the slap in their