{"id":284748,"date":"2016-12-15T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T08:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-does-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T08:56:03","slug":"trump-does-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-does-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Does Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Did President-elect Donald Trump turn a 10-minute phone call with the president of Taiwan into a Hellfire missile, instantly vaporizing the US\u2019 &#8216;One China&#8217; policy? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>This is a riddle inside an enigma. Let\u2019s start with a cool-headed interpretation, as published in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2052547\/trump-likely-strengthen-military-ties-taiwan-neutralise\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Beijing\u2019s Renmin University, which for three years has been advising the Chinese leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Qijing, the author of the report, cuts to the chase: \u201c<em>The unspoken words behind \u2018Make America Great Again!\u2019 is that China\u2019s economy, especially its manufacturing industry, is making the US not so great as before\u2026So we should not question [the determination of the] Trump administration to mobilize any political, economic and military resources to protect and advance US economic interest, or even make it its first priority<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, Taiwan will be used as a Trump bargaining chip to close some package deal with China.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the hardline interpretation, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1023308.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">voiced <\/a>by the Global Times, which in a popular, no-holds-barred way, is always allowed to formulate out loud what the Beijing leadership is discussing behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>An editorial with shades of The Sopranos states, \u201c<em>Beijing will never drag out an ignoble existence by paying into a protection racket. The strength gap between China and the US for the moment is the narrowest in history. What reason do we have to accept a most unfair and humiliating deal from&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/trump-does-taiwan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did President-elect Donald Trump turn a 10-minute phone call with the president of Taiwan into a Hellfire missile, instantly vaporizing the US\u2019 &#8216;One China&#8217; policy? Of course not. This is a riddle inside an enigma. Let\u2019s start with a cool-headed interpretation, as published in a report\u00a0by the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Beijing\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}