China continues to seeth over Donald Trump’s overtures to Taiwan. First, there was in the phone call between Trump and Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen. Now, the Washington Post reports:
BEIJING — President-elect Trump is talking about Taiwan again — and nobody, it seems, is pleased about his comments on the nearly four-decade-old basis of U.S.-Chinese relations. In an interview broadcast Sunday, Trump said the U.S. would not necessarily be bound by the One China policy, the diplomatic understanding that underpins ties between Washington and Beijing, unless it could “make a deal,” potentially on U.S.-China trade. The remark elicited an angry response from Beijing, with the Foreign Ministry expressing “serious concern” and a Party-controlled newspaper calling the president-elect “as ignorant as a child.”
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