The current administration seems willing to pull the trigger on anything at all that has ever been vaguely pointed in China's direction: postal union complaints

The current administration seems willing to pull the trigger on anything at all that has ever been vaguely pointed in China's direction: postal union complaints, WTO grievances, party poppers, champagne corks, water balloons filled with urine. You name it; if it hurts China even a pinprick diplomatically, they want to use it. If it has ever been proposed and analyzed, just for preparedness, and then left alone for prudent diplomatic reasons, they're now pulling it out of storage and setting it off, or pushing it from the slow-grind to the fast-track. It might have been in the works for decades, but the current administration is why it is actually happening in 2019, instead of getting perpetual postponements, hoping to resolve things amicably, without major economic disruptions. I'm a bit surprised they haven't moved toward recognizing Taiwan as independently sovereign, and I'd bet that someone is carefully redacting any allusions to the fact that Taiwan exists from all briefings, and begging Fox News daily to keep any mentions of it off the air.