{"id":68933,"date":"2016-12-05T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=68933 "},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:48:00","slug":"68933-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=68933","title":{"rendered":"Trump attacks China in Twitter outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">5 December 2016<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2016\/48\/2016125Cy6uUWEUUAAUd2P.jpg\" alt=\"2016125Cy6uUWEUUAAUd2P.jpg (1172&#215;548)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">US<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> President-elect Donald Trump has posted a series of tweets criticising China for its monetary policy and its operations in the South China Sea.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency&#8221; and &#8220;build a massive military complex?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">China<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> said both sides should &#8220;stick to basic principles&#8221; of the relationship.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Last week Mr Trump risked a diplomatic rift with China by speaking directly with Taiwan&#8217;s president.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The highly unusual move saw China lodge a complaint with the US.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In response to the latest tweets, without directly referring to them, the Chinese foreign ministry said the US and China have long had &#8220;highly mutually beneficial&#8221; relations.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A spokesperson declined to comment on &#8220;he and his team&#8217;s method and what&#8217;s the thinking behind it&#8221;, referring to Mr Trump.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The US has previously criticised China&#8217;s yuan devaluation, saying it unfairly favours Chinese exporters.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It has also told Beijing to stop reclaiming land around islands and reefs which are claimed by multiple countries in the South China Sea, and has sent US Navy ships to the area. Both sides have accused each other of &#8220;militarising&#8221; the region.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The US currently imposes tariffs on some Chinese imports, such as steel and tyres. Mr Trump has previously threatened to impose a 45% tariff on Chinese goods.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Can Donald Trump continue his Twitter diplomacy? &#8211; Jonathan Marcus, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter outburst along with his telephone call with the Taiwanese president has sent an emphatic signal to Beijing that the new US administration&#8217;s Asia policy may not be business as usual.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We don&#8217;t know if the tweets will continue when Mr Trump enters the White House. But if they do, they threaten not just to ruffle feathers abroad but also to sow uncertainty within his own administration.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The president may be the ultimate arbiter but once in office he cannot risk publicly second-guessing his key cabinet appointments. But there&#8217;s another problem too. The tweet, as a medium, is by definition short and off-the-cuff.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Policymaking, by contrast, requires coolness, deliberation and a weighing up of options. The danger is that Twitter diplomacy, for all its honesty, could exacerbate crisis instead of resolving it.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mr Trump&#8217;s phone call with Taiwan&#8217;s President Tsai Ing-wen was thought to be the first time a US leader or leader-in waiting has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979, the year formal ties were severed.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The White House has said the phone call did not signal a shift in its decades-long &#8220;One China&#8221; policy stance, which does not recognise Taiwan as an independent sovereign state but also does not recognise Beijing&#8217;s claim over Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vice President-elect Mike Pence has tried to downplay the call, saying it was a &#8220;tempest in a teapot&#8221; and &#8220;a moment of courtesy&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Beijing<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> lodged a &#8220;solemn representation&#8221; with Washington, where it urged the US to &#8220;cautiously and properly handle&#8221; the issue of Taiwan, according to Chinese state media.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Beijing<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> 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.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><br \/><\/p>  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-38167022\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For detail please visit here<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&quot;Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency&quot; and &quot;build a massive military complex?&quot; he asked. &quot;I don&#39;t think so!&quot;China said both sides should &quot;stick to basic principles&quot; of the relationship.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}