[HarleyLady27]

PING...

[HiTech RedNeck]

hey China there’s a new boss in town!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Donald Trump is not even inaugurated yet and he’s making some phenomenal changes. I am really going to enjoy the next four years!

[ifinnegan]

Leverage scheverage.

It’s simply the right thing to do.

[kevao]

The Art of the Deal

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.
8:41 PM - 2 Dec 2016

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Chortle. It is a huge “Kiss My Ass”

[technically right]

Ronald Reagan with poor speaking skills and an orange hairdo.

Works for me.

[ozzymandus]

Jimmy Carter was the traitor who cut Taiwan off. The same traitor who gave away the Panama Canal and let Iran invade our embassy. The MSM should be careful about dredging up those memories.

[HarleyLady27]

The thing that makes me the maddest about this whole situation with China is that the Clintons sold our secrets to them, made a deal with the uranium and then turned around with Harry Reid and the Vegas mob for the ‘mineral rights’ to the Bundy Ranch and then paid the sheriff off in Oregon on the Hammond Ranch for the very same reason...according to the libs, that’s just fine...

Let President Elect Trump take a call from a foreign government and all hell breaks loose, but I don’t see the Clintons, Harry Reid, the Mob or China loosing any skin in this game...

[chiller]

If nothing else, remember this:

Rule #1 in any trade deal is to fully understand who is the customer within the equation. The U.S. market is the biggest trade customer on this entire beautiful blue planet. We hold all the leverage. Access, or denial of access, to this market is the leverage.

[catnipman]

the alt-left and the fake news media are coming completely unglued about this, like they even really give a crap about Taiwan and China; it’s just that for each and very action President Trump takes, the fake news media will attack him viciously, no matter what he does.

[DesertRhino]

Total stud. Just did it to show them they don’t make the rules and we instantly obey. Everything they want, they need to deal for. And that means we get something too.

God, this is gonna be fun.

[WMarshal]

Just a friendly note to the leadership of China who, because of the isolation imposed by Mao, may not be aware of America's tendency to surprise those who despise it:

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini did not count America as a credible adversary of the Third Reich because of its incoherent racial mix; they saw Americans as a "mongrel race", "half-Judaised" and "half-Negrified". [1]

In an address to the Reichstag on 11 December 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States and lambasted U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

He [Roosevelt] was strengthened in this [political diversion] by the circle of Jews surrounding him, who, with Old Testament-like fanaticism, believe that the United States can be the instrument for preparing another Purim for the European nations that are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. It was the Jew, in his full Satanic vileness, who rallied around this man [Roosevelt], but to whom this man also reached out.[2]

Just to be clear, those who have hated us have always attacked us and lost. Why? Probably because America's enemies have always assumed that we were less than them and that we would fight the last war. Admittedly the current track record of America's wars is unimpressive. However any rational thinker has to admit that none of the wars since WW II has ever galvanized America to believe that its very survival was at stake.

Imagine what America would do to China if America's back was up against the wall? Does anyone in China's leadership really doubt that America would rally around an existential threat to its way of life and its very survival?

During WW II, after America had defeated Germany and Italy and could focus its attention on Japan, the Japanese became desperate and started attacking America with suicide fighter kamikaze pilots. In spite of relentless suicide pilot attacks America did not stop and went on to evict the Japanese out of the western Pacific. When America was contemplating invading the Japanese home islands they knew that the Japanese were planning hell on earth and death for millions before Japan would surrender. America's political leadership decided to cook two cities in Japan and everyone in them like god-damned fried eggs in order to drive home the point that Japan must either surrender or die. This resoluteness forced the mad-dog Japanese leadership to surrender.

If China thinks that it is going to intimidate and bully America then it is making the very same mistake that many other countries have made regarding America and will never make again. Make no mistake, Americans admire Chinese culture, history, and aspirations, but we will bury you if you push too far and the humiliation of the Opium Wars in the 19th century will look like a golden age.

Here is a personal anecdote to drive home the message. In 2005 I took my family to Washington D.C. to let my retired marine father-in-law get his fill of American history. After what must have been the 50th war memorial of the trip my 11-year old daughter asked me, "This must be the hundredth war memorial we have been to, how many are there?" I replied to her that "There are hundreds because the world is full of assholes."

China, please don't be another, prolapsed, gaping, asshole.

1. Rubin, Barry; Rubin, Judith Colp (2004). Hating America: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-530649-X.

2. Saul Friedlander (2008) The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945. London, Phoenix: 279

[StAnDeliver]

“Later, President Trump called Xi Jinping and ordered four egg rolls and wonton soup...”

[Pinkbell]

Liberals LOSING it. I might post CNN’s article later so folks can have a good laugh. It took FOUR reporters to write it.

[bert]

There are many reasons and results of the phone call. One is that the original reason for the two China’s policies no longer exists.

There is tacit peace between China and Taiwan that permits beneficial two way trade. It is not your father’s Oldsmobile.

The Trump call first and foremost opens the blinds and permits sunlight to allow the view of the change taken place and in progress.

Also, rather than begging for retaliation, the call is retaliation. You play with artificial Islands, I’ll play with the big island, Taiwan.

The young upwardly mobile in China and Taiwan are not at war and have buried the hatchet. There is business and money at stake.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3489963/posts

[Buttons12]

The diplomatic world is completely sclerotic. If Trump wants to inject some lubricating, rejuvenating remedy, that’s a good thing.
China knows better than most nations, what happens when your mandarins make a government brittle.
So lighten up Fan Xi.

[GonzoII]

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[DCBryan1]

President Trump: "Hello, Taiwan? I want girls. Busloads/trainloads of your girls imported!"

President Tsai Ing-wen:: "Girls? I first female Plesidant of Taiwan. I send you girls. Bus roads! Here, I text you picture:"

Trump: "Nice. Send them over and I'll send you missiles, money, and Carrier Air conditioners instead of that Chinese Crap. It'll be great."

Tsai Ing-wen: "Tank you for da helmet Plesident Trump! Chinese very crose to us. We will win with your weapons! We send you more girls! Here rookie here:

Taiwanese girls: "HIIIIII DONNNNNNALLLD!

Trump: "Why, hello Taiwan. We are going to win so much, you'll get tired of winning!

[redgolum]

Bad idea, and a major misstep.

China will view this as a direct confrontation, and an attack.