Trump Says He’ll Honor ‘One China’ Policy In Call With Chinese Prez

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During a phone call on Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump said that he would honor the “one China” policy despite Trump’s impromptu call with the leader of Taiwan shortly after the election.

“President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping of China had a lengthy telephone conversation on Thursday evening. The two leaders discussed numerous topics and President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our ‘one China’ policy,” the White House said in a statement on the call. “Representatives of the United States and China will engage in discussions and negotiations on various issues of mutual interest.”

After the election, Trump spoke by phone with the leader of Taiwan, breaching protocol and becoming the first U.S. president to speak by phone with Taiwan’s president in decades.

After the call, China issued a warning to the United States and urged Trump to honor the “one China” policy, through which the U.S. acknowledges that Taiwan is part of China and the only Chinese government is the People’s Republic.

A few days after the call, it was revealed that Trump’s conversation with Taiwan’s president was the result of a months-long lobbying effort by Bob Dole on behalf of Taiwan.

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  1. China should know that if his lips were moving during the phone call he was lying…

  2. The wind must have changed direction today. Yesterday it was blowing from the other direction. Tomorrow it will be somewhere else.

    Mr Flighty doesn’t remember from day to day where he stands.

    Except when Baby Ivanka gets her feelings hurt, that he remembers forever.

  3. Except he thought he was talking about cups and saucers at the Mar-a-Lago.

  4. He is “Weak on China.” He requires abbreviated Daily Intelligence Briefings. The ultimate irony is that the current Dixiecrat GOP and its resentful white voter base was formed in the early 1970s in the case that eventually became Bakke v Regents of the State University (of California), the social conservative case seeking to have Affirmative Action declared unconstitutional.
    This movement has now resulted in the Affirmative Action election of yet another pampered, dumb, totally unqualified white male (see Ronald Reagan, see George W. Bush) for the most important job in our country and possibly the World, where he is receiving Remedial On The Job Training in which he is showing absolutely no interest. He loves the photo-video opportunities of signing Executive Orders. He loves tweeting his Neanderthal thoughts to the millions of his fans. After a mere three weeks, he is already the worst President the US has ever had. And he probably still thinks that Carly Simon’s first big hit is about him.

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