Trump’s phone call with Taiwan was reportedly months in the making

Tensions between the two major world powers seemed to get tenser after his speech.

“I think Trump is breaking with all sorts of protocols, whether it be State Department, whether it be environment”, Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street “.

His phone conversation with Tsai Ing-wen was a breach of long-standing tradition that risks enmity from China, but a longtime China watcher says he can’t yet be sure of the meaning.

Stephen Yates, a national security official under President George W. Bush, told the Post that Taiwan was on the Trump transition team’s list of foreign leaders to reach out to “very early on”.

The Obama administration official warned Trump that he risked damaging US interests and creating unrest in the Taiwan Straight, which separates the island from the mainland, with the gesture.

On Saturday, Beijing firmly reminded that “there is only one China and Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory”.

“President-elect Trump would as well”, he said.

He used the occasion to whack China, saying the country devalues its currency and built “a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea” without US permission. “I don’t think so!”, Xinhua news reported.

The call has triggered waves of debate and speculation about whether this signals changes in relations among China, the USA and Taiwan.

Reaction from both government and official media was unusually subdued after the real-estate tycoon lashed out on social media, accusing China of military expansionism and manipulating its currency.

The statement added that Taiwan’s President elected in May and the U.S. President-elect who was elected on the eighth of November have exchanged congratulations and noted that other phone calls were received from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, and the Singaporean President Lee Kuan Yew.

“We have no comment on what motivated Trump team to make such tweets”.

It sparked a backlash from China’s government, which considers Taiwan a province of China.

Conway suggests that the outrage over the call shows many Americans’ unwillingness to accept Trump as their president and to give him a chance, which included Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein’s three-state, vote-recount effort.

Vice president-elect Mike Pence described the call as simply a “courtesy” call, not a policy shift, dismissing it as a “tempest in a teapot”.

China’s Foreign Ministry said it had lodged “stern representations” with what it called the “relevant USA side”, urging caution on the issue.

The conversation with the Taiwanese leader was the first by a United States president since 1979 when Washington embraced a “One China” policy under which Beijing views special territories Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as part of China.

In practice, the island enjoys numerous trappings of a full diplomatic relationship with the US.