WTF is up with China?

Grabbed this excerpt from a NYT article about US' concern about the Chinese military's young generation of leaders:

"Why do you sell arms to Taiwan? We don’t sell arms to Hawaii,” said Col. Liu Mingfu, a China National Defense University professor and author of “The China Dream,” a nationalistic call to succeed the United States as the world’s leading power.

 Like WTF?  Hawaii is not Taiwan; Hawaii's not even a Hong Kong.  What sort of non-parallel argument is this, being asserted by some so-called professor?  They must hand out diplomas like water in China.

Can't wait to see what happens when the Chinese try to assert their military power to defend their oil consumption.