Story is not: Trump called Taiwan.
Story is: Taiwan called Trump.
Read any article posted. It does not say "Trump called Taiwan". It does say Trump had a call with Taiwan, not to Taiwan.
Wrong on all counts...the story is that the President Elect of the United States of America spoke directly to the President of Taiwan...thereby breaking roughly 40 years of US diplomatic policy. THAT is the main thrust of the story.
The secondary thrust is that, once again, our President Elect does not appear to have any idea what he just did. (Naturally his devout followers don't either...but that is not news.)
This is the type of thing that happens when we elect an unqualified individual who has absolutely no experience for the job...and he decides he doesn't need to learn. He refuses to take his daily security briefings...how he is supposed to be Mr. Badass if he has no idea what the threats are? He also is not availing himself of State Dept briefings prior to taking or setting up these calls. (the same people that complained about Mr. Obama's lack of experience nominated a guy with even LESS!)
He won...and THAT seems to be the ONLY thing the man actually gives a sh!t about. He can't recall what he said/promised to win...and he isn't interested in actually doing the job that is the result of his win.
Call whine one one!!
Who gives a crap? Since when does China control our president?? If Trump wants to talk to the president of anywhere in the universe, China doesn't have anything to say about it. China can suck it.
You people having a #### fit because Trump DARED to talk to the president of Taiwan are morons. You don't even know why it's a big deal, you just heard a bunch of other morons having a conniption and wanted to jump on the bandwagon. OMG!!! He broke diplomatic policy!! Call the freaking wahmbulance! Call whine one one!!
Our best customer is in Taiwan. It's a great little country and a very loyal ally.This is because the left wants to believe this happened because he has no idea what the consequence is - that he somehow knows LESS than they do.
Sure, it profoundly pisses China off, although I have never quite understood why.
I've a wait and see outlook. I've said before that from time to time, Trump actually does something clever. He intends to kick the hornet's nest with China.
CNN front page article about how Trump's "violation" of protocol is stirring up foreign powers and diplomats. I really never did understand why there was such pussy-footing around when it came to diplomacy. .
This is because the left wants to believe this happened because he has no idea what the consequence is - that he somehow knows LESS than they do.
Sure, it profoundly pisses China off, although I have never quite understood why.
I've a wait and see outlook. I've said before that from time to time, Trump actually does something clever. He intends to kick the hornet's nest with China.
I like a president who does what's in our best national interest, and who cares if some Communist dictator gets pissed about it. Not sure why we've been kissing China's ass anyway. You'd also think the Left would be cheering for Taiwan - the little guy against Goliath. But you'd also think they'd be cheering for Israel, too, and we'll note that they don't.
Trump isn't going to let China control him like they controlled Bill Clinton. He mentioned several times during the campaign that he was going to renegotiate our deals with them. I'm going to guess that having a relationship with Taiwan is a start.
On another note, it's interesting to watch the Left lose their hivemind about American "imperialism", yet stand around with their finger in their nose when it comes to Chinese imperialism.