china, all of places, mad at you. you know what, $30 million is $30 million. if you're the kind of country that cycles through prime ministers every few hours, that gives you a way to unburn your bridges in cases like this. yeah, vanuatu made china mad at them, but when the prime minister who made that decision got thrown out of office, just a month later vanuatu reversed the policy, making up with china, hopefully pocketing the old hard taiwanese cash. whatever you think of a country diplomatically prostituting itself like this, it's one way to make money and opportunities like this araise from time to time. four years after the china/taiwan deal, cha-ching, russia was trying to create two new countries inside the nation of georgia. you'll remember that vladimir putin in 2008 invaded georgia. russia and georgia went to war for about a week. there are pro-russia local governmentses in these two places inside georgia in