A tale of Trump and two Asian leaders

On Friday, there were two major stories about President-elect Trump’s communications with Asian leaders. One of them doesn’t matter. One of them does.

The one that doesn’t matter is Trump’s surprise acknowledgment of Taiwan’s sovereignty, in the form of his taking a phone call from Taiwan’s president (and then tweeting about it). Yes, this goes against the utterly fraudulent “One China” policy that the U.S. once adopted as a means of countering the Soviet Union in the 1970s. But that policy is far more outdated than the Cuban embargo. Taiwan’s government, having been elected, has more legitimacy than mainland China’s. It’s about time a president said so — get over it.