Trump's Challenge to 'One China' Is Playing with Fire
Ted Galen Carpenter
Politics, Asia
Taiwan is the one issue where China will never, ever compromise.
When President-elect Donald Trump took the congratulatory telephone call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on December 2, he violated a strict protocol that had been in place for more than three decades. Since the United States switched its diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China (the official name of the noncommunist remnant based on Taiwan) to the communist regime in Beijing in 1979... Читать дальше...
