Posted on 12/05/2016 2:31:54 PM PST by Kaslin
There once was a time when China was afraid of offending us, but liberal pundits, politicians, and those human equivalents of the dodo bird, career diplomats, are aghast that President-elect Donald Trump took a congratulatory phone call from the democratically elected president of Taiwan Tsai-Ing-wen. Trump acted to “buck diplomatic protocol”, the chattering class harrumphed, and offended China, whose leader, President Xi JinPing, President Obama bowed to in 2014 at the APEC Economic Leader’s meeting in China.
Trump’s hyperventilating critics forget that to accept a call from a foreign leader is not conducting foreign policy. President-elect Trump knows full well the President Obama will be both head of state and commander-in-chief for the next six weeks or so. He also knows that American foreign policy needs to be conducted in Washington, D.C., not Beijing. He knows that our ludicrous “one China” policy has not stopped China from becoming a strategic nuclear threat whose expansionist designs have caused Beijing to lay claim to Japanese islands in the East China Sea and to build its own islands in the South China Sea which China considers a Chinese lake. As Trump protested in a tweet,
We sell Taiwan billions of dollars in defensive weaponry and he can’t take a phone call? So we are arming one alleged part of China to defend itself against the rest of China? Hello?
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#### China and their 2 aircraft carriers.
Not right to bow down to China? Well, I mean, jeez, our current fearless leader bowed to just about everyone (literally speaking) including their pet kittens. I think Trump should too. /s/
LOL! The title brings visions of Obama literally bowing to his knees to grand pooh pah’s.
Blessed relief, in TRUMP.
You said it.
Once upon a time Nixon & Kissinger opened the door to china to isolate the Soviet Union, and in the process created an ugly communist super-power. Now Trump (and Rohrbacher?) is enlisting Russia's support to isolate China. That's irony.
In the past eight years, Americans have grown so accustomed to seeing obama crawl before every international leader in the world that they’ve come to believe it’s one of the duties of a president.
It isn’t.
It’s going to be so refreshing going forward!
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