Turns out the commitment to democracy and self-determination we've been hearing so much about from the Bush Administration doesn't apply to Taiwan: ...administration officials said there was no change in the fundamental one-China policy that now reaches back three decades. It repeated that China must not "coerce" Taiwan, that any reunification between the two must be peaceful, and that Taiwan must not provoke a crisis. And what kind of "provocation" are we talking about? James Moriarty, who runs Asian affairs for the national security council, secretly traveled to Taiwan last week to underscore American opposition to the referendum that Taiwan's president has proposed. The referendum would amount to a condemnation of China's missile buildup along its eastern coast, aimed at Taiwan. So who's provoking whom?