It seems President-elect Donald Trump isn’t interested in business as usual with China. Just as his intervention at Carrier Corporation in Indiana indicates he will intervene in corporations’ decisions where American presidents typically do not, his protocol-breaking phone call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen — the first such communication since the U.S. recognized mainland China in 1979 — indicates he’s willing to push boundaries in his effort to reverse what he sees as the U.S. losing power to Beijing. His Carrier move may be in the right direction, but the Taiwan phone call is not.
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December 16, 2016
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