Taiwan in fear of becoming a pawn between United States and China

China has flown a nuclear-capable bomber outside its borders in a show of force for the first time since US President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan.

“We urge the new USA administration and its leadership to fully recognize the sensitivity of the Taiwan question and stick to the One-China policy”, Geng said.

Trump last week appointed Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, who is personally acquainted with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as ambassador to Beijing, which hailed the nominee as a “friend of China”. “Taiwan is not a source of leverage”, Earnest said Monday. “You have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem, and they’re not helping us at all”, Trump said.

There’s been a delicate diplomatic balance since 1979 when the USA shifted formal recognition to China from Taiwan.

In response to the interview, a Chinese foreign policy expert earlier described Trump as diplomatically “immature” on Monday, in the state-run Global Times.

China has reportedly stepped up air patrols around Taiwan and the wider region, and Chinese military aircraft circled the global airspace surrounding Taiwan, prompting Japan’s military to scramble fighter jets over an alleged trespass on Saturday.

The principle of “One China” strikes at the very heart of Beijing’s “core interests” and what it considers as the “bedrock” of US-China relations, and a non-negotiable prerequisite for all countries maintaining diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic. In the book, Trump stated that “our biggest long term challenge will be China” and he noted that efforts to induce democratic political reform in China through trade have not worked.

Nowhere is this clearer than the nascent Trump administration’s evolving policy on Russian Federation and China, which is emerging from on-the-fly comments, tweets from the President-elect himself, and a controversial potential pick for secretary of state. Trump should understand the larger meaning of current efforts to move incrementally toward Taiwan independence and reject those efforts as the threat to core US interests they represent.

China made a clear stand that they view the actions of the incoming US President as a silent attack to its own bilateral relationship.

China could signal its resolve over Taiwan by holding war games close to the island, for example by effectively closing off air and shipping routes by lobbing missiles into waters close to Taiwan’s densely populated western coast, a move that would deeply unsettle the region.

In October, Treasury announced it would not make the declaration of currency manipulation, although China is on a list of states being monitoring for unscrupulous currency activities.

SHANGHAI China will soon slap a penalty on an un-named US automaker for monopolistic behavior, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting a senior state planning official. “You have North Korea”.

Earnest said this kind of progress, which benefited both the American people and China, would be more hard if tensions were heightened over the “one China” policy.

He added that “maintenance of the One-China policy is critical in order to avoid the deterioration of US-Chinese relations in the future”.

The one-China policy “is not something that can be negotiated”. While China has supported stiffer United Nations sanctions and won’t endorse a nuclear North Korea, it remains reluctant to impose economic costs that could threaten the survival of Kim Jong Un’s government.