China Call

From the BBC:

"White House looks to reassure China after Trump-Taiwan call"

The White House says it has sought to reassure China after President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. The call last week sparked alarm as the US does not have formal relations with Taiwan, which China views as a breakaway province.  China lodged a diplomatic complaint in response. The White House said officials had assured China of their "continued commitment to a one-China policy". Mr Trump's phone call was followed by two tweets in which he criticised China's monetary policy and its operations in the South China Sea. Mr Trump has downplayed his conversation with Ms Tsai, calling it a courtesy call. On Monday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was "hard to determine exactly what the aim was" behind the president-elect's actions.  But he said the US policy on Taiwan had "been in place for nearly 40 years, and it has been focused on promoting and preserving peace and stability". "The adherence to and commitment to this policy has advanced the ability of the United States to make progress in our relationship with China and, of course, has benefitted the people of Taiwan," said Mr Earnest. Beijing sees Taiwan as a province and aims to deny it any of the trappings of an independent state. It has threatened to use force if Taiwan formally declares independence.  Taiwan is not recognised by the US as an independent country and the two have no formal diplomatic relations, but it also does not recognise Beijing's claim over Taiwan. China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said US-China relations were always conducted on a "win-win" approach. "To maintain such sound momentum of development, it will take both sides to work together on the basis of upholding major principles in bilateral relations," he said.  On Tuesday, an opinion piece in the overseas edition of China's People's Daily newspaper said that "provoking disagreements with China will not help resolve US domestic problems, won't help achieve the new Trump administration's domestic agenda".

"Provoking Sino-American frictions, messing up US-China ties will also not help 'Make America Great again'," said the article by Jia Xiudong.

^ This is just another reason China will one-day own the US and the rest of the world. We allow ourselves to be China's lackey rather than the only Super Power have left in the world. We should not have the One-China Policy anymore. It may have been needed in 1979 when President Carter started it (I know most people think it was Nixon in 1972, but it wasn't) because we wanted another ally (especially a Communist one) against the USSR, but the Cold War is over and a lot has changed around the world in the 30+ years since we dropped Taiwan  - who we had been allies with since it gained it's independence from the Japanese in 1945 - for China. The US was able to have relations with both West Germany and Eats Germany in the 1980s and one was a Communist country so I don't see how we can't do the same with Taiwan and China. For not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan we still allow Taiwanese citizens to enter the US under the Visa Waiver Program and yet don't do the same for Chinese citizens. Just saying. China liked it's one-policy things whether it was One-Child or One-China. They did away with their One-Child Policy and the US should do away with the One-China Policy and recognize Taiwan and China. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38218202