In a tweet Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rushed to support President-elect Donald Trump after Trump was criticized for taking a phone call with Taiwan and jeopardizing U.S. and China relations.
I would much rather have Donald Trump talking to President Tsai than to Cuba’s Raul Castro or Iran’s Hasan Rouhani. This is an improvement.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 3, 2016
China does not recognize Taiwan as a legitimate government and therefore Trump’s taking the phone call from Taiwan could impact U.S.-China relations.
On Friday, Trump’s call to Taiwan became a major news story as it violated decades-worth of precedent and led to questions about the president elect’s intentions and his ability to navigate geopolitics. It also upset China, which released a statement Saturday reminding Trump and the United States of the “one China” policy.
I doubt talking to Cuba will endanger Carrier’s supply chain.
Found as a link from NYT article on the dependence of US manufacturers on sub-components from overseas:
I never posed the question to myself before, but now I see that there really is an opposite to Realpolitik—Fantasiepolitik.
I don’t think this will turn out like a Traum.
Ted Cruz is another of those useful people for setting metrics:
Whatever Cruz supports is, ipso facto, a bad thing. Take the children indoors, close your windows, bar the doors whenever you hear Cruz praising anything.
I can’t decide if this is just ass-kissing (a la Mitt Romney) or if Cruz hopes that starting a war will make Trump look bad. (In either case, there is obviously no concern for the impact on the country)
He plays to the crowd and wishes his were as large as Trump’s