Posted on 12/06/2016 7:33:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Relax.
Breathe.
Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan wasn’t a blunder by an inexperienced president-elect unschooled in the niceties of cross-straits diplomacy.
It was a deliberate move — and a brilliant one at that.
The phone call with President Tsai Ing-wen was reportedly carefully planned, and Trump was fully briefed before the call, according to The Post. It’s not that Trump was unfamiliar with the “Three Communiques” or unaware of the fiction that there is “One China.”
Trump knew precisely what he was doing in taking the call. He was serving notice on Beijing that it is dealing with a different kind of president — an outsider who will not be encumbered by the same Lilliputian diplomatic threads that tied down previous administrations. The message, as John Bolton correctly put it, was that “the president of the United States [will] talk to whomever he wants if he thinks it’s in the interest of the United States, and nobody in Beijing gets to dictate who we talk to.”
Amen to that.
And if that message was lost on Beijing, Trump underscored it on Sunday, tweeting: “Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!” He does not need Beijing’s permission to speak to anyone. No more kowtowing in a Trump administration.
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That may well be. I don’t know. My POINT is that whatever has been bandied about AFTER the call is just manipulation, image control, or policy control, or whatever.
I was primarily talking about his first reception of the call and in speaking to the Taiwan President. Additionally, it was NOT Trump who called her, IIRC.
As I said, in my opinion, this is all just making ‘a mountain out of a mole-hill.’
I love it!
They HAVE read a one page, double-spaced synopsis, with the suitable bullet points, per the briefer's opinions and prejudices. World leaders lose track of reality when they stop driving themselves.
I read on Drudge Report that it was Bob Dole that set up the call...
Maybe, but I found Savage to be a bit hypocritical yesterday. He pounded trusting Trump during campaign. Why not now? His side was he wants nothing from Trump, so he is free to criticize.
Bolton for SOS
Where are all the other SOS applicants on this.......crickets
Seems that Bolton fits in with Trump's thinking.
IMHO it is possible that if one were to read three books:
The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
...that person could rule the world.
Somebody call Dr. Savage. He thinks this was a big ole blunder.
Yep and I like Mike a lot.
However, I am finding that Trump is just brilliant and I may have underestimated him even me!!
God bless us
Savage is a joke.
Political neophytes were totally confused on this one. It’s ok. They all will catch on eventually.
The adults are taking charge before they’re even “in charge”.
Cheney looked happy and more ROBUST than I have seen him in years! Did Liz win the seat?
Great words. Ask China to leave Tibet. Start that first. Wonder if it is past of the sphere of “China One?”
Many libs I know have smugly informed me that government isn’t run like a business. It should be I say. Keep showing them how it should be done DT.
Turns out. The call was arranged by Bob Dole at Trump’s request.
Planned.
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