Almost feels like I am documenting the build up to world war 3 at this point in this thread.
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/02/donal...iwan-call.html
So yeah Trump just managed to piss on 40 years of US policy, piss off Beijing, and it was probably on accident....
Donald Trump risks opening up a major diplomatic dispute with China before he has even been inaugurated after speaking on the telephone on Friday with Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan.
The call, confirmed by four people, is believed to be the first between a US president or president-elect and a leader of Taiwan since diplomatic relations between the two were cut in 1979.
Although it is not clear if the Trump transition team intended the conversation to signal a broader change in US policy towards Taiwan, the call is likely to infuriate Beijing which regards the island as a renegade province.
UPDATE 12/4/2016
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/04/donal...ea-debate.html
All I got to say is holy fuck. China might have written off the first thing with Taiwan as a fluke. Trump just declared a trade war and called China a currency manipulator. China is absolutely going to fucking lose it.
You guys have no idea how insane this is about to get
Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into..Update 12/12/2016their country (the U.S. doesn't tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don't think so!
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politi...ion/index.html
Update #2 12/12/2016China's response was measured but clear: co-operation with the US "would be out of the question" if Trump doesn't adhere to the 'one China' policy -- a cornerstone of bilateral relations since the establishment of diplomatic ties in the 1970s.
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/12/fiori...adversary.html
Carly Fiorina, who is reportedly under consideration to be Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, met with the president-elect Monday and said the pair discussed China as "probably our most important adversary."