On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News that he wouldn't feel "bound by a one-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade."
Using this as a bargaining chip is laughable and demonstrates a bewildering lack of understanding of the issue. This kind of rhetoric is dangerous.
China has pursued a strategy of reunification with Taiwan going back to the Sino-Japanese war at the end of the 19th century.
Japan lost the island at the end of WW2 and as a result of the Chinese civil war the ROC has largely controlled the island since then, with diplomatic relations for the entire mainland being with Taipei and not Beijing until the 1970s.
China is not going to cede any concessions over trade or currency over the one china policy. They will fight tooth and nail to maintain it. They will retaliate with anti-US trade measures, not friendly ones.
If trump starts a trade war, welcome to a worldwide economic depression like the world has never seen, and there is a strong possibility that would lead to actual war in Taiwan.
China's response:
China'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.
"I want to stress that the Taiwan question has a bearing on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politics/china-trump-one-china-reaction/index.html
I know there are a couple of threads that mention this but I believe it is worthy of it's own thread given the potential implications. Mods disagree toss it out like an orange peel.
Using this as a bargaining chip is laughable and demonstrates a bewildering lack of understanding of the issue. This kind of rhetoric is dangerous.
China has pursued a strategy of reunification with Taiwan going back to the Sino-Japanese war at the end of the 19th century.
Japan lost the island at the end of WW2 and as a result of the Chinese civil war the ROC has largely controlled the island since then, with diplomatic relations for the entire mainland being with Taipei and not Beijing until the 1970s.
China is not going to cede any concessions over trade or currency over the one china policy. They will fight tooth and nail to maintain it. They will retaliate with anti-US trade measures, not friendly ones.
If trump starts a trade war, welcome to a worldwide economic depression like the world has never seen, and there is a strong possibility that would lead to actual war in Taiwan.
China's response:
China'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.
"I want to stress that the Taiwan question has a bearing on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/politics/china-trump-one-china-reaction/index.html
I know there are a couple of threads that mention this but I believe it is worthy of it's own thread given the potential implications. Mods disagree toss it out like an orange peel.
