Trump pisses off China - his third major diplomatic faux-pas just this week
Trump Just Infuriated China By Calling Taiwan. Dan Rather’s Response Is Going Viral.
Donald Trump committed his third major diplomatic faux-pas just this week when
he called the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, breaking decades of
established protocol. He was the first president-elect to do so since
1979 when the United States broke diplomatic relations with the island
nation in order to recognize the government of Beijing as the legitimate
government of China.
Dan Rather's response on Facebook:
I have said before that there are no training wheels to becoming president, and we may have seen the effects of that today.
Reports are ricocheting across the news media and the diplomatic
world that Donald Trump has become the first United States President or
President-elect to speak directly with the leader of Taiwan in decades.
There is no bigger touchstone to the stability of the far rim of the
Pacific than the issue of Taiwan. We do not yet know what precipitated
this apparent gross breach of
established American protocol, but the damage may already have been
done. This is deeply serious business. You can expect that the
government in Beijing is burning up the trans-Pacific communications
with some version of “what the hell is going on?” They will likely make
their displeasure, if not fury, known very quickly.
There’s is nothing would concern the Mainland Chinese
more than to have a suspicion that American foreign policy will change.
We can guess that this was something Trump and his advisors didn’t think
through. Or maybe it was meant to be provocative. Regardless, someone
needs to tell the President-elect that this isn’t some “reality-show”
that you can fix in the editing room floor.
