What happens next time?

"A Chinese technology executive held in Canada on US fraud charges has left the country after a deal with prosecutors, following years of diplomatic tensions over her fate. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, was detained on fraud charges in December 2018 at the request of the US," BBC. As part of the deal, "Two Canadians detained by China for nearly three years have been released, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday night," CNN. "Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were picked up in December 2018 shortly after Vancouver police arrested Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (HWT.UL) Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant," Reuters. "Meng was confined to her expensive Vancouver home at night and monitored 24/7 by private security that she paid for as part of her bail agreement. Referred to by Chinese state media as 'Princess of Huawei', she was required to wear an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor her movements, which became fodder for the tabloids when it hung above her designer shoes," Reuters. While Meng was living in luxury in Canada and was represented by a battery of lawyers, life was brutal for Kovrig and Spavor. "Following their detention in December 2018, the men were transferred to detention facilities where they were interrogated for up to eight hours a day. The lights in their cells are reportedly left on 24 hours a day, and they have been denied access to consular officials and their lawyers," wikipedia. "The swiftness of the apparent deal also stands as a warning to leaders in other countries that the Chinese government can be boldly transactional with foreign nationals, said Donald C Clark, a law professor specialising in China at George Washington University Law School," New York Times. "They're not even making a pretense of a pretense that this was anything but a straight hostage situation," he said of the two Canadians, who stood trial on spying charges.  "In her 'Ingraham Angle' monologue...., host Laura Ingraham explained how the financial entanglements between Biden and Heinz-Kerry families and China help explain why the United States continues to defer to their biggest global rival on many fronts; economic, humanitarian and coronavirus-related," Fox News. Not just China, Biden has messed up everywhere. "When French officials erupted in anger last week after being left out of a US-led security pact with Australia and the UK, much of Washington was caught off guard -- including President Joe Biden, according to people familiar with his reaction," reported ardent supporter of Biden, CNN. "The debacle is the latest in a series of foreign policy crises that have erupted over the past several weeks for Biden, ones that both foreign diplomats and US officials have said were completely avoidable." "US and foreign officials say that they have been bewildered and appalled by the Biden administration's two recent, major diplomatic failures -- first in the execution of its withdrawal from Afghanistan and then by enraging its oldest ally, France, by keeping the country in the dark about the submarine deal, known as AUKUS." "Multiple lawmakers angrily stormed out a classified briefing with members of the Biden administration on Afghanistan", as "The Republican and Democratic lawmakers grew frustrated after the State Department, Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and office of the Director of National Security officials failed to answer their basic questions during the briefing for members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the sources told CNN." Naturally, "A group of House Republicans has filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden," Fox News. Taiwan is to spend $8.69 billion in the next five years on upgrading its defence against a "severe threat" from China, Economic Times. With a weak, confused president in the White House China may decide this is the ideal time to invade Taiwan. What happens then? Capitulate or retaliate?