China warns US on Taiwan leader’s planned transit

Taiwanese media reported late Friday that Trump’s team had arranged the call with President Tsai Ing-wen.

Taiwan’s government has denied that the island’s President Tsai Ing-wen will stop over in NY during her trip to Central America next month and try to meet president-elect Donald Trump.

“I think it’s hard to determine exactly what the aim was of the president-elect”, Earnest said. On the one hand, he is bluffing and unpredictable, and on the other, he has no plan to overturn worldwide relationships, and will focus on USA internal affairs to “make America great again”.

Four of the aircraft flew an anti-clockwise loop round Taiwan, an island a little larger than the state of Maryland that China sees as a breakaway province, before meeting up with the other two planes to the north of the country, Chen said. Taiwan was not mentioned in that call, according to an official Chinese transcript. “Although I can not foretell exactly how far he will go on the issue of Taiwan, the policy his administration will hold in this regard will definitely be more negative than that of President Obama’s administration and all the others since President (Jimmy) Carter”. Diplomats and experts believed the Trump-Tsai conversation could lead to a major rift with China and strain cross-strait relations.

In stringent remarks, the English-language China Daily newspaper termed Trump as a “diplomatic rookie”.

“Taiwan is our ally”, Moore said in a radio interview Monday on the Big John and Ray Show on WLS AM890.

According to a Foreign Ministry statement sent to Reuters, when Tsai visits Guatemala next month (Jan 11-12), Beijing hopes that the United States will “not send any wrong signals to “Taiwan independence” forces” by letting her transit through the country.

The Taiwanese government welcomed Trump’s appointment of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to be White House chief of staff. Taiwan Foreign Minister David Lee called the pick “good news”.

“China’s reaction reflected its confidence in the stability of China-U.S. relations, its patience for Trump to get a better understanding of China policy, as well as its determination to defend the bottom line of the bilateral relationship”, Dong said.

China still considers Taiwan to be part of the communist country, even though the Taiwanese people consider themselves separate.

To another burst of laughter, he added “I would expect more of this kind of creativity” from President Trump.

“The US side, including President-elect Trump’s team, is very clear about China’s solemn position on this issue”, he said.