Posted on 12/02/2016 6:14:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald J. Trump has broken with decades of diplomatic practice in freewheeling calls with foreign leaders.
Dec. 2
Mr. Trump talks to the president of Taiwan, becoming the first U.S. president or president-elect to do so since 1979.
Why it matters
The call with President Tsai Ing-wen risks infuriating China, which considers Taiwan a breakaway province governed by Chinese rebels. By honoring the Taiwanese president with a formal call, Mr. Trump’s transition team implicitly suggests that it considers Taiwan an independent state. The U.S. has declined to recognize Taiwan since 1979, when it shifted recognition to the government in Beijing. Taiwan itself has yet to declare formal independence.
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We all love the legacy of Ronald Reagan, but he never moved so instinctively prior to inauguration nor showed himself so effective....
Yes, but not the Pakistani one!
Bravo! Very well stated.
Yes! You Got That Right!
This from the same POSs that think the Iran deal is so great — that deal also upset decades of diplomacy
decades of diplomacy, they’re kidding right?
How dare Trump insult the New York Times Communist buddies?
Trump said that everyone was invited to the party. If some want to ignore that invitation or come to the party and cause trouble I have a feeling he can handle that too in a firm effective and professional manner.
The “decades of diplomacy” that gave us 2 wars in Iraq, a godawful nuke agreement with iran, and which coddled the Castro brothers needs to be disrupted. Preferably with flamethrower.
You dumbasses! Taiwan called Trump.
Huh ? But Obama’s campaign 2008 world tour was ok ?
Oh wait...he was a sitting senator, so it was ok.(s/off)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/us/politics/24obama.html
Exactly what I was thinking.
Also - did anyone see him bowing down?
I am sure Trump will. This also means putting a lot of stock on Pakistan behaving like a civil, well-mannered nation. I have very serious doubts about that.
Is this the NY Times’ idea of more balanced coverage?
He’s sticking by his word that he wants to include everyone. That starts with extending a hand of friendship. He doesn’t have to put any stock in what they might or might not do he simply has to deal with whatever response they give.
We will all see how that goes given some time. He has impressed me enough in the last year that I don’t feel the need to second-guess him.
“The call with President Tsai Ing-wen risks infuriating China, which considers Taiwan a breakaway province governed by Chinese rebels. By honoring the Taiwanese president with a formal call, Mr. Trump’s transition team implicitly suggests that it considers Taiwan an independent state.”
WHO CARES? ....Trump has said that nationalism, not globalism will be our credo....
President Trump would do well to announce that no human organs harvested from living Christians will be accepted as organ transplants in the United States.
The New York Slimes - Fake news and hyperventilating because The Donald was polite and talked to a leader who called him. ChiComs can go pound sand. They should never have been accepted as a “preferred” trade partner.
Or upsetting to 8-years of Obama ineptitude.
The Left-wing media truly thinks that Bammy was some sort of foreign policy god when in reality he harmed this nation more than any other president.
The US is perceived now as a week, subservient nation thanks to the Obama adminstration.
No one gives a damn about what the haters at the new york times have to say... they write for corrupt elites - not for the people.
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