Own goal

摘要

China may already be regretting its de-cision to adopt an anti-secession law aimed at keeping Taiwan in check. For Taiwan's independence-minded president, Chen Shui-bian, it has been a political boost, enabling him to rally hundreds of thousands of people last weekend in one of the island's biggest ever demonstrations. And it has introduced Taiwan-hith-erto mainly a problem between China and America-as a tricky new factor in China's relations with the European Union.