Are you actually referring to that recent "mistake", shipping a near-30 year-old missile nose cone to Taiwan?

A nuclear trigger would be an essential WMD component, and OTOH, I think the Chinese in general have had traditional access to robust ceramics technology already.

homer:This is a bit different from US drops out in the Moscow Olympics. "

In that case, Soviet *invasion* of Afghanistan about 1980 "triggered" the boycott, didn't it?

I am peripherally wondering if/reminded that the European colonial powers were evidently rather generally passive and ambivalent towards the United States civil war, 1860.

In brief: The USofA is not the only global power that occasionaly misses the chance to make bold, even "correct" moral statements.