Government
Dec. 8, 2016
Trump and the 'art' of the Taiwan call
One cannot know whether President-elect Donald Trump was aware of the singular importance of the "One China Policy" when he recently accepted an otherwise unoffending congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
One cannot know whether President-elect Donald Trump was aware of the singular importance of the "One China Policy" when he recently accepted an otherwise unoffending congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen. Outwardly, Trump has adopted a persona as someone who could be acting either out of cunning or ignorance.
Nor can one safely accept at face value his surrogates' subsequent interpretation of what combination of cunning and ignorance are in play. These sur...
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