Taiwan: Trump call was not China ‘policy shift’

Even the KMT, now Taiwan’s opposition party, has welcomed the move.

China regards self-ruling Taiwan as part of its own territory awaiting reunification under Beijing’s rule, and any United States move implying support for independence – even calling Tsai ‘president, ‘ as Trump did in a tweet announcing the call – prompts grave offence in China.

“The phone call was a way for us to express our respect for the USA election as well as congratulate President-elect Trump on his win”. They fear that what Trump has started will inevitability provoke China’s wrath and could escalate to a new cold war.

Democrats warn Republicans on Obamacare: Senate Democrats are warning Republicans who are planning a quick repeal of Obamacare next year: Don’t count on us to help replace it. -China relations, Yates said that they are not an isolated triangular relationship and are better viewed as part of a global network of relationships, with other important parties involved, he said.

“He got a call, he took it, and again, he’s getting calls from everyone, so I think probably a lot more is being read into it than is the case, really”, Corker said. “But things will be different when he becomes president”, the state-owned paper warned, adding that to “stop acting like the diplomatic rookie he is, the next USA president needs help in adapting to his forthcoming role change”.

The Global Times, a hawkish tabloid under the ruling Communist Party’s top newspaper the People’s Daily, called Trump “bluffing and unpredictable”, but said he did not have plans to overturn America’s worldwide relationships.

Wei Jingsheng, who spent 18 years in Chinese prison for his democracy advocacy, urged the Trump administration to follow through on threats to impose trade tariffs on China, saying that the us would win a trade war as China can not risk losing its USA market.

Taiwan sees itself as an independent state but Beijing considers it as a breakaway province.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday pointedly blamed Taiwan for the exchange, rather than Trump, calling it “a petty action”.

The freewheeling Donald Trump foreign policy tour hit a bit of a pothole last night, after it was reported that Trump spoke with the president of Taiwan, reversing nearly 40 years of us foreign policy. The Chinese foreign ministry said that it had lodged “solemn representations” with the United States over the phone call and urged caution.

Meanwhile, speaking on Taiwan-U.S.

Trump’s call with on Friday sent shock waves through at least part of the USA diplomatic establishment and led China to lodge a formal diplomatic protest with the U.S.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter fight with China has the potential to draw Australia into a real conflict, Australian politicians and experts fear. Next came Twitter messages on Sunday that echoed his campaign blasts against China on economic issues and the South China Sea. Their statement comes only days after the NY businessman spoke to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday. The Shanghai Communiqué jointly issued by the USA and China in 1972 during president Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China was based on the assumption that “Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China”.

China hasn’t always been known for diplomatic restraint, particularly when it believes its “core interests” were violated. However, China and Russian Federation say THAAD threatens their security by allowing the U.S.to peer deep into northeastern China and gives the USA the ability to launch a pre-emptive first strike.

The call was a breach of diplomatic protocol, and Trump advisers have made conflicting statements about whether it signaled a new policy toward China.

“Presidents of the United States have been too anxious about offending Beijing and this telephone call made it clear that they no longer are going to have Americans shaking in their boots, because the Chinese are now upset with something they said to Taiwan”, he said. Trump raised the issue during the campaign and referred to China’s fortified man-made islands in his tweet, saying Beijing didn’t ask the US if it was OK to “build a massive military complex in the South China Sea”.