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Last week, Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of Taiwan, a self-ruling island of twenty-three million people off China's southeast coast, called President-elect Donald Trump, who by taking the call shattered a decades-long Washington taboo. The news thrilled millions of Taiwanese citizens, who have long complained that the United States has neglected the world's only Chinese-speaking democracy in order to please authorities in Beijing.
President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Taiwan was "not that big an issue," Rep. Ed Royce said Tuesday. "I presume that was a courtesy call from the president of Taiwan to the president of the United States," Royce, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations, said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
Trump upends US foreign policy with Taiwan call US President-elect Donald Trump broke with decades of foreign policy to speak with the president of Taiwan, prompting Beijing Saturday to accuse Taipei of a ploy but saying the move would not affect US-China ties. It was not immediately clear whether Trump's telephone call with President Tsai Ing-wen marked a deliberate pivot away from Washington's official "One China" stance, but fuelled fears he is improvising on international affairs.
President Tsai Ing-wen inspected two military bases in Eastern Taiwan on Sunday, her first ever trip in her capacity as the nation's commander in chief. The president boarded Air Force One for Eastern Taiwan where she inspected Hualien Air Base and the neighboring Jiashan Air Base, the island's primary eastern defense area.
In Hiroshima on Friday, President Obama will imagine an alternative universe where no one fears nukes ever again. But in the real Asia, including Japan, people mostly dread the rise of China.