Taiwan’s President: A Phone Call ‘Doesn’t Mean A Policy Shift’

“(The) president-elect was fully aware of the one-China policy”, Pence said. China awoke Monday, Dec. 5, to criticism from Trump on Twitter, days after it responded to his telephone conversation with Taiwan’s president by accusing the Taiwanese of playing a “little trick” on Trump.

Aside from Trump’s phone conversation, no US president or president-elect is known to have had contact with a Taiwanese leader since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979. It is highly likely that Washington will sustain its official relations with the Chinese which came into fruition when the United States ended diplomatic connections with Taiwan in 1979.

Some 50 global leaders have phoned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to offer their congratulations on his election victory. “I spoke with the president of Taiwan when she was transferring planes in Miami a couple months ago”. “The U.S. can not (and should not) try to dictate the policy of another sovereign state”, Peoples Daily warned.

But Beijing’s main point here is that Trump will have to defer to China – because it’s the stronger player, economically.

The call riled China, which considers Taiwan a province and not an independent country.

The latter article, which ran with the printed headline “Trump in no position to be rash with China”, called Trump’s China-related tweets a “tantrum” created to be a “China-bashing” cover-up for his intent to pillage other countries for US economic success.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said he had no information to announce about whether Tsai would meet U.S. officials if she stopped in transit.

On Monday (5 December), the White House sought to control the damage by reassuring its ties with China and its “long-standing” commitment to the “one China” policy.

“The PLA’s long-term strategy is to prevent Taiwan from becoming a chess piece of the U.S. to contain mainland China”. I’m not sure how that benefits the United States relationship with Taiwan. “China is going to have to make some adjustments in its thinking”, Jia Qingguo, professor at Peking University, told Agence France-Presse, calling the comments “sobering”.

She said she had hosted a dinner for Trump supporters in Taipei ahead of the November 8 election.

Hoekstra, a former chair of the House intelligence committee, told Fox News’s Megyn Kelly that Trump is doing exactly what the Republican Party platform calls for and what he said on the campaign trail – that his administration will be tough on China.

“And I think that gives us reason to be anxious about U.S”. -China relationship. “And most importantly, that has kept the peace in the region”, he said. When President Obama broke with decades of US policy and extended diplomatic recognition to a murderous dictatorship in Cuba, the foreign-policy establishment swooned. Bolton said the United States needs to deal with what he called China’s “aggressive and belligerent claims” in the South China Sea.

“Trump’s reckless remarks against a major power show his lack of experience in diplomacy”.

Even the KMT, now Taiwan’s opposition party, welcomed the move. Trump made the gesture to see how Chinese leader Xi Jinping will react, Hsu, a former political science professor, said. He now works at the John L. Thornton China Center, part of the Brookings Institution research group.

Mr. Trump defended the call in a series of tweets Sunday night, lashing out at critics who’d accused him of acting irresponsibly toward China.

“There are serious risks posed by his failure to take briefings by government professionals”, Bader said.

Stephen Yates, deputy national security adviser to then-U.S. George Grow was the editor.

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