China, A Powerful Victim, Winning Abduction Spat With Taiwan And Watch For More

Taiwan isn't just mad this week at its China, an old political rival that had been spared a lot of wrath over the past eight years in the interest of building trust. It's using diplomatic and legal tools to push Beijing for the release of 45 Taiwanese citizens who were deported from Kenya this month – to China rather than home, hence the outrage. It rang up a hotline Tuesday to accuse China of an international crime, abduction, and has prepared to send a delegation. It also intends to sue three government agencies in Kenya, which worked with China to get the Taiwanese out after they were suspected of telephone fraud. China, Taiwan says, should have consulted it according to a 2011 agreement to team up on crime-busting issues.