All it took was a call, a 'controversial' 10-minute phone call to Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, by Trump that had the world media going berserk!
A mouthpiece for the Chinese government dubbed the call as, "caused by the billionaire’s lack of foreign policy experience." Of course, critics opine Trump's call with Taiwan may alter decades of foreign policy. In an editorial published on Sunday, the China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper, said the affair had “exposed nothing but his and his transition team’s inexperience in dealing with foreign affairs”.
Many had predicted that the call - the first known contact of its kind in almost four decades - would elicit a ferocious response from China’s leaders, who regard Taiwan as a breakaway province that should one day be reunified with the mainland.
Reports say that John Delury, an east Asia expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, said the formal nature of China’s immediate response did not mean there was not real anger in Beijing. He said much about Trump’s likely policies towards China remained a mystery. It was impossible to know whether the conversation with Tsai reflected the incoming president’s incompetence or, in fact, heralded the arrival of a major strategic shift in US policy in the region.
A mouthpiece for the Chinese government dubbed the call as, "caused by the billionaire’s lack of foreign policy experience." Of course, critics opine Trump's call with Taiwan may alter decades of foreign policy. In an editorial published on Sunday, the China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper, said the affair had “exposed nothing but his and his transition team’s inexperience in dealing with foreign affairs”.
Many had predicted that the call - the first known contact of its kind in almost four decades - would elicit a ferocious response from China’s leaders, who regard Taiwan as a breakaway province that should one day be reunified with the mainland.
Reports say that John Delury, an east Asia expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, said the formal nature of China’s immediate response did not mean there was not real anger in Beijing. He said much about Trump’s likely policies towards China remained a mystery. It was impossible to know whether the conversation with Tsai reflected the incoming president’s incompetence or, in fact, heralded the arrival of a major strategic shift in US policy in the region.
By - Staffwriter
