Posted on 12/03/2016 10:26:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
BEIJING — China’s leaders have been markedly reticent about what kind of leader they think Donald J. Trump will be. A pragmatic dealmaker, as his business background might indicate? Or a provocateur who tests the ways of statecraft?
By talking on Friday with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, Mr. Trump answered that question in stark terms, Chinese analysts said Saturday. Breaking decades of American diplomatic practice, he caught the Chinese government off guard by lunging into the most sensitive of its so-called core interests, the “One China” policy agreed to by President Richard M. Nixon more than four decades ago.
“This is a wake-up call for Beijing — we should buckle up for a pretty rocky six months or year in the China-U.S. relationship,” Wang Dong, an associate professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University, said Saturday. “There was a sort of delusion based on overly optimistic ideas about Trump. That should stop.”
Chinese leaders covet stability in their relationship with Washington, and perhaps for that reason, they have allowed fairly rosy assessments of Mr. Trump to appear in the state-run news media. Many of those accounts have depicted the president-elect as a practical operator devoid of ideology, the kind of person China might find common ground with despite his threats of a trade war.
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Sounds good to me!
Sum Ting Wong, China?
LOL.
They’d also be fools in China to make a devil’s bargain with Iran, or North Korea, both of which could turn on them.
good!
Communist China needs to realize that the ROC/Taiwan will remain independent ... peaceful/non-threatening, yes, but independent and NOT SOLD OUT by USA
China has been given a “nuanced” heads up that Trump will not be walked on or dictated to.
So what if Trump changed a 40-year-old U.S. policy on China. Obama changed a 55-year-old policy on Cuba (and was praised by the NYT).
Ah, China, you no most favored nation any ronger.
Is Wang Dong the Carlos Danger of China?
Good news Times, he is not planning on pursuing the Global Warming fraud.
Pray America woke
Yes, but that also broke decades of diplomatic practice.
Yeah, end the relationship dumb ass. Where you gonna sell your crap? Implode your economy. Now you get to enjoy the position of someone owing you tons of cash. The debt holder is just as screwed as the debtor.
Dim bulb. Just accept that Taiwan isn’t yours and that America wont dance like a monkey on a stick anymore at your command. Just go with it, itll actually be better for you in the long run.
China’s thin skin is a ruse. You will never make friends with China. China wants to own the ocean and surround Japan and Taiwan. They do not intend to be friendly to the US. Our Navy ships allow cargo to move through that sea. China is going to take offense of everything we do. And if they can control that ocean, they can control the ships leaving the rest of the Asian tigers to the US. It does not matter who made this phone call. Or even that the phone call exists.
Trump talked to the President of Taiwan and Liberal freak out.
Obama met with the President of Cuba, and talked with the President of Iran and Liberals cheer.
I know what side I’m on.
very good! LOL
“he caught the Chinese government off guard by lunging into the most sensitive of its so-called core interests”
And the world saw this. They saw him catch them with their pants down. How long has it been since the world worried about what WE might do instead of expecting us to react to their acts?
And wonder if this feels like we did when they built those islands and expanded territorial claims?
Fluk China and the commie dictators. The USA has sold it’s soul and industry to these strident commies. Time they are given a clear message that Trump won’t be bought or bullied.
“I don’t know how you are then going to expect China to cooperate on Iran and North Korea and climate change. You are going to ask Taiwan for that?””
Like they are right now? The kick me sign is off the US now. The idea that something Nixon did should not be “revisited” in today’s world is laughable.
“Is Wang Dong the Carlos Danger of China?
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No, that would be his twin brother Whack Dong!
Trump talked to the President of Taiwan and Liberal freak out.
Obama met with the President of Cuba, and talked with the President of Iran and Liberals cheer.
I know what side I’m on.
The kenyan gave plane loads of cash to Death to America Iran and guns to mass murdering Mexican cartels. And liberals cheered.
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