The politically sensitive phone call drew derision from China, its media as well as a flood of comments by Taiwanese netizens
Taiwan News
Date: 2016/12/04
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
In another move flouting diplomatic conventions since he won the Nov. 8 election, U.S. President-
Trump-Tsai talk over phone has drawn irritated responses from China, its state newspaper as well as a whole lot of comments from Taiwanese social media users(By Central News Agency)
elect Donald Trump accepted a phone call from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, an act that has drawn irate responses from China, its state newspaper as well as a flurry of comments from Taiwanese social media users.
In an initial comment apparently meant to downplay the call, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday that the contact between Taiwan’s president and Trump was “just a small trick by Taiwan.”
Washington has followed a so-called “one China” policy since 1979, when it switched diplomatic tie from the government in Taiwan to the communist government on the mainland. Under that policy, the U.S. recognizes Beijing as representing China but retains unofficial ties with Taiwan. It’s believed that since then no U.S. presidents has ever accepted a phone call from a Taiwanese leader until Trump.
Reacting to the phone calls, The Global Times,which is owned by the Communist Party of China mouthpiece the People’s Daily, published a report that says Taiwan will have to pay a price for whatever it does to “break away from the status quo.” [FULL STORY]
