Despite several weeks of intense US pressure to soften - or even retract - the proposed law, China’s leaders did little more than attempt to reinforce their position that “non-peaceful” (i.e., military) measures would serve strictly as a last resort - which had already been assumed anyway.
Malgré plusieurs semaines de pressions intenses de la part des Etats-Unis pour l’assouplissement – voire le retrait – du projet de loi, les dirigeants chinois se sont pratiquement contentés de réaffirmer que les mesures “non-pacifiques” (c’est-à-dire militaire) ne seraient prises qu’en dernier ressort, ce que l’on supposait déjà.