US and China appear to be on a collision course in Taiwan. Trump questions one China policy. China launches bomber diplomacy over South China Sea.
President-elect Trump rocked China and the region, with his telephone conversation with Taiwan President Tsai.
This was followed by what I call China's bomber diplomacy when "China flew a long-range bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons over the South China Sea in recent days."
And now Trump issued a tectonic statement: "US doesn't 'have to be bound' by 'one China' policy."
This is aimed at China's most sensitive part: Taiwan's independence. A two-China policy by the US if it comes to pass would be tantamount to recognizing Taiwan's independence.
This China issue will have repercussions in many parts of the world.The US would humiliate China if it formalizes the scrapping of the one China policy or even subject it to review.
Very relevant to this is the question on who peopled Taiwan first: the Han Chinese or people who are not indigenous to China like the Austronesian people who anthropological records show were the original settlers in Taiwan. The Malay race is Austronesian. In fact, a strong school of thought is that the aborigines of Taiwan are of the same stock as the Malays that settled in what are now called the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
President-elect Trump rocked China and the region, with his telephone conversation with Taiwan President Tsai.
This was followed by what I call China's bomber diplomacy when "China flew a long-range bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons over the South China Sea in recent days."
And now Trump issued a tectonic statement: "US doesn't 'have to be bound' by 'one China' policy."
This is aimed at China's most sensitive part: Taiwan's independence. A two-China policy by the US if it comes to pass would be tantamount to recognizing Taiwan's independence.
This China issue will have repercussions in many parts of the world.The US would humiliate China if it formalizes the scrapping of the one China policy or even subject it to review.
Very relevant to this is the question on who peopled Taiwan first: the Han Chinese or people who are not indigenous to China like the Austronesian people who anthropological records show were the original settlers in Taiwan. The Malay race is Austronesian. In fact, a strong school of thought is that the aborigines of Taiwan are of the same stock as the Malays that settled in what are now called the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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