Trump slammed as ‘diplomatic rookie’ by Chinese state media

However, the Taiwanese lawmaker said that he was not a Trump fan mainly when it comes to his remarks on women and ethnic minorities.

The telephone call was the first with a US president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition to China from Taiwan in 1979.

The China’s foreign ministry protested President-elect Donald Trump action of breaking a decades-long conciliatory tradition by speaking directly with the president of Taiwan while de-emphasizing the importance of the exchange.

Jeffrey Bader, a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution and a former Obama administration official, described Trump’s phone call as heightening concerns about his foreign policy deftness.

Many Chinese social media users have accepted that challenge in a lighter vein, offering satirical rebuttals to Trump on his own turf: Twitter.

“Provoking friction and messing up China-US relations won’t help “make America great again” “, it said in a front-page opinion piece in its overseas edition.

The White House said on Monday it had sought to reassure China after Trump’s phone call with Tsai last week, which the Obama administration warned could undermine progress in relations with Beijing. “He may have already been obsessed with the power he is about to have a grip on, and wishes the whole world should follow his lead”, an editorial in the same newspaper said. This shouldn’t be allowed. “Trump as future USA president should know what to say properly on different occasions”, the piece concluded.

“Trump and his transition team ought to recognize that creating trouble for China-U.S. relations is just creating trouble for the U.S. itself”. “We will not speculate on what motivates President-elect Trump and his team into taking certain moves”.

Mr. Earnest pointed out that this policy has been in place for nearly four decades, under Republican and Democratic administrations, but he was unsure of whether Mr. Trump would continue with it.

“There are serious risks posed by his failure to take briefings by government professionals, and he appears to have little respect for the potential damage of actions taken without understanding long-standing USA national security concerns”, Bader wrote on the Brookings website.

“As president-elect, Trump can expect some forgiveness even when he is shooting from the hip”.

China’s state media were more vocal in their condemnation, however.

“Succeeding a mostly upward U.S”.

All eyes in China – or at least in the Communist Party leadership – are on Trump’s picks for Secretary of State and ambassador to China.

“Since the election, Trump has always avoided receiving intelligence briefings, which cannot help but think of the first few months of 2001, George Bush ignored the warning about Osama bin Laden”, the article reads when translated through Google Chrome.

We want good relations with China, but that should not blind us to the abysmal human rights record of the Chinese government.

But they are telling, nonetheless.

The call is believed to have been the first in 40 years between a Taiwanese leader and a USA president-elect in the wake of the 1979 “One China” policy, in which Washington recognized China as the sole legal government of the Chinese people and cut off official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.