Posted on 12/04/2016 7:43:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
For too long, the West has cowered when Beijing huffed and puffed about Taiwan. Trump is finally calling its bluff.
Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thinks Donald Trump has just put America on the road to war.
In reality, the opposite may be true. The president-elect may have taken the first steps to stabilize East Asia.
On Thursday and Friday, Mr. Trump spoke over the phone with his counterparts in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Singapore. Yet by far the most controversial, and consequential, conversation occurred on Friday, when he exchanged pleasantries for 10 minutes with Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwan leader.
Trump spoke with Tsai without consulting the White House or the State Department. He also bypassed the American Institute in Taiwan, America’s liaison office in Taipei.
Critics jumped at the lack of coordination. Senator Murphy, in a tweet, called the phone conversations “major pivots in foreign policy w/out any plan.” And then the Connecticut Democrat dropped this line on the public: “That’s how wars start.”
Murphy, by raising the prospect of titanic armed struggle, could not have been thinking of Trump’s conversations with Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines or Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan. The president-elect may have made a few misguided comments while discussing affairs with them, but these mistakes were innocuous.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
i thought The Beast didn’t like Trump? This seems an ok article from them.
“Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thinks Donald Trump has just put America on the road to war.”
LOL. Coward.
You mean you don't have any plan. Trump apparently has one. In fact, you guys haven't been paying attention. He always has a plan. He is fighting a campaign and you have all the awareness of an insect squashed in the radiator.
ANDRIA MITCHELL .........*G*......
take note!.....Damn she made a fool of herself today
We should never have recognized mainland China. The chicoms have been actively working on taking over Taiwan through political (and eventual military) means. How can we let that happen? Just leave Taiwan to be eventually and inevitably absorbed by mainland China? It will happen if we don’t do something about it.
But wait. Donald breaks tradition since 1979. ? What did obama do with castro ( burn in hell) ? since 1958??? Where is the media?
Is that different than any other day for that Hillary cult member?
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Exactly. He’s been thinking of and dealing with China for many years. He’s also been speaking out about them. He HAS a plan!
[ Stop Freaking Out, Donald Trump’s Taiwan Phone Call Was a Good Thing ]
The Daily Beast has this? Wait, how long have I been asleep?
Next thing, you’ll be telling me Kramer is working at Brand/Leland and has to be there by nine a.m.
I hope that Trump sees the difficulty of being Chinese and in Taiwan. If he didn’t initiate the call, he certainly should have.
During the phone call, Donald Trump ordered:
General Tso’s Chicken
Hunan Twin Delight
Egg Fu Yung
Chow Mein
Fried Rice
Taiwan delivered 20 minutes later to Trump Tower.
2018 will be the election to help 'Make Connecticut Great Again!' :-) Murphy and Mallory are up...Republican Governor and Senator would be nice...
“I hope that Trump sees the difficulty of being Chinese and in Taiwan.”
I am having problems understanding this comment. You hope Trump understands how hard it is to be Chinese while being in Taiwan?
First, Trump did not place the call, the President of Taiwan did. Most news sites are not pointing this out, they seem to be implying that Trump did, and playing it as a gross mistake by an incompetent political beginner.
Second, always remember this:
NEVER underestimate Donald Trump.
He has a plan, he never does anything without a plan. It’s in his genes after 40 years of large scale building and real estate.
The media thinks it’s legitimate for China to dictate to an incoming American President who he can talk to. The media forgets that it was customary for American Presidents to talk calls from the Taiwan leadership until Jimmy Carter switched the protocol in order to curry favor with China. Trump is just reinstating the original protocol.
The media thinks it’s legitimate for China to dictate to an incoming American President who he can talk to. The media forgets that it was customary for American Presidents to talk calls from the Taiwan leadership until Jimmy Carter switched the protocol in order to curry favor with China. Trump is just reinstating the original pro Taiwan protocol.
“Chris Murphy? He makes Shelia Jackson Lee look like a Rhodes Scholar...”
And that’s hard to do! The woman is dumber than a box of rocks.
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