US' sub tech sale increases tensions across the Straits

Separatists in Taiwan are being naive or self-deceiving if they consider the US State Department's approval of a marketing license to sell military submarine technology to the island to be good news.

It is only in their imaginations that such technology will boost the island's "defense" capabilities. Even having bought the technology, and should the island manage to master the capability to manufacture submarines on its own, the vessels will not help them achieve their goal.

Rather than being good news, the bait the US has offered them to continue pursuing their unattainable ambition is actually bad news; for Taiwan and for the relationship across the Straits.