Posted on 12/03/2016 2:31:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Over the past two decades, Taiwan has slipped from its position atop the list of flash points in the complex relationship between the United States and China. In meetings between President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China, it has typically come up after half a dozen more pressing issues, like trade, cyberattacks and Beijing’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea.
Now, though, in a single protocol-shattering phone call with the president of Taiwan, President-elect Donald J. Trump has thrust it back on the table. Not since President Richard M. Nixon met with Mao Zedong in 1972 — when the two issued the Shanghai Communiqué clarifying the status of Taiwan — has an American leader so shaken up the diplomatic status quo on the issue.
“Taiwan is about to become a more prominent feature of the overall U.S.-China relationship,” said Jon M. Huntsman, who served as ambassador to China during Mr. Obama’s first term. “As a businessman, Donald Trump is used to looking for leverage in any relationship. A President Trump is likely to see Taiwan as a useful leverage point.”
In the short run, Mr. Trump has rattled the entire region. Representatives of several Asian countries contacted the White House on Saturday to express concern, according to a senior administration official.
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His tweet was great!
dear new york slimes...................one phone call and you clutch your pearls. NK shoots of missles............crickets. slimes you do know china being favored nation was supposed to stop NK from getting out of control.....yet nothing on your site ever says anything about that.
there was something very very very very sicko in USA ‘protocol’ or policy if a simple phone chat with the ROC president upset anybody (other than maybe the Communist rulers on the mainland).
Dear NYT: relax. ROC is not an enemy dictatorship nor a terrorist gang (like so many of the phone calls or personal visits conducted by BHO have involved)
relax.
No prob, I just couldn’t quickly guess the correction, even given the context. Thought I might be missing some more obscure (to me) reference.
Yes it was.
Well, maybe because they AREN’T a terrorist state is what’s got the Times panties in a wad.
You’re funny!
That was the initial statement by China. It doesn’t surprise me that the media and State Dept. types are more ready to criticize Trump than China is. The State Dept. is supposed to be an advocate for us in other countries, but generally they act as an advocate for other countries within our government. As for the media, well we know how dishonest they are.
Art of the deal.
Leverage.
Put Taiwan on the table.
This is the United States of America.
Setting the negotiation table with China.
This is not difficult.
The MSM are not normal.
They are the trailer trash of the nation.
good insight, you may have hit the bullseye
Finally a President who will stand up to China. GO TRUMP GO
Trump’s a good chess player
The Left never misses a chance to show its support for tyranny.
Since when has Mainland China had veto power over any relations the US may have with Taiwan?
And since when has the New York Times been the spokes-agency for the Red Chinese government?
Fake news again. Trump answered the phone. BFD.
Well, concerning your comment about the Times & the Red Chinese - probably since Mao was slaughtering folks during their beloved cultural revolution. According to the Times, they had less but better revolutionaries.
Heaven forbid we upset the Communists!
(Both at the NYT and China)
Thomas Miller , Vice Consul in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 1979-1981Source: George Shultz: “Your Country is the United States”MILLER: George Shultz, for many of us, was like God. He was a really good guy… He’d have all new ambassadors in to his office, one at a time, as they went out for a five, maybe 10 minute chat.
And he’d say, “OK, Mr. Ambassador or Madame Ambassador, you’ve passed all the tests. You’ve been confirmed by the Senate and you’ve passed your security investigation. You’ve done all the things to get the position of ambassador, but you have to pass my test. I have one more for you.” And he’d take them over in the Secretary’s office to where there was this massive globe, and he’d say, “I’m going to spin the globe and I want you to put your hand on your country.”
Shultz would tell this story, and he said, “Every single one of them failed. But I let them go anyway.” Because whenever he spun the globe and he’d say, “I want you to put your hand on your country,” they’d always put their hand on the country that they were going out to. His point was your country is the United States.
Sure has hasn’t it.
We’ve had a bonfire going to years, and they’ve only got a match.
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