When American foreign-policy elites are more upset than China, perhaps it’s time for some introspection. #TimeToGetTough.” Indeed, the very idea that Trump could not speak to Taiwan’s president because it would anger Beijing is precisely the kind of weak-kneed subservience that Trump promised to eliminate as president.
As far back as 2011, Trump tweeted: “Why is delaying the sale of F-16 aircraft to Taiwan? Wrong message to send to China. Trump promised during the campaign that he would take a tougher stand with China, and supporting Taiwan has always been part of his get-tough approach to Beijing. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The message, as John Bolton correctly put it, was that “the president of the United States (will) talk to whomever he wants if he thinks it’s in the interest of the United States, and nobody in Beijing gets to dictate who we talk to.” He was serving notice on Beijing that it is dealing with a different kind of president - an outsider who will not be encumbered by the same Lilliputian diplomatic threads that tied down previous administrations. It’s not that Trump was unfamiliar with the “ Three Communiques” or unaware of the fiction that there is “One China.” Trump knew precisely what he was doing in taking the call. The phone call with President Tsai Ing-wen was reportedly carefully planned, and Trump was fully briefed before the call, according to The Washington Post. Jorge Saenz, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Luis Hidalgo, Files / Associated Press
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