So China is going to sink an aircraft carrier over a phone call?
It’s just a small move to make them fidget in their chairs. Our press just isn’t used to playing second fiddle.
These goofs are using the same analysis as the Hillary people, i.e. he is dumb and "not qualified". Thats all they've got?
Too many pundits do not realize there’s soon to be a “new sheriff in town.”
How well could China deal with unrestricted targeting of any commercial shipping bringing supplies to China, or taking China's products to market?
The writer of this piece, known as “Spengler”, is a #NeverTrump member. He always tries to make Trump look foolish.
It is ridiculous to talk about China taking out an American aircraft carrier without considering what doing such a thing would bring down on China. As one of the commenters noted, “How many cities does China want to lose for one carrier?”
Besides, the Chinese are not loved in the Pacific Rim better than the USA. What about Japan, India, Australia, and many other nations? Would they prefer the Chinese be in control of the Pacific? I don’t think so.
Trump’s phone call took control of the strategic situation concerning China before he was even inaugurated. The man is a genius!
China has an ‘out’ here if they are smart enough to take it. All they need to do is recognize that Trump is not yet president. I think that they’ll take it.
“For Trump, it exposed nothing but his and his transition team’s inexperience in dealing with foreign affairs. “
Uh, yeah, China. Keep on telling yourself that: you’re just whistling pass the graveyard if you really do believe that.
Maybe so, but at least they are playing with a full deck.
The left in the US need safe space for themselves. It is not diplomatic to do anything that would upset the fragile dialectical balance of modern society. The US Left is really terrified of a new paradigm in which they have no instructions on what to say or what to do.
Talking to Taiwan was not on their radar. It so greatly upsets them that Trump pulled off this sneak attack on the delicate modern carefully balanced rube-goldberg society.
Trump has opened negotiations with Beijing. Beijing has responded. Both understand the process.
Chinks are about to learn that they will have to get used to the way Mr. Trump does things, not the other way around. Ifeel like we are living in a time machine and Trump is taking us back to a time when America and Americans amounted to something worthwhile.
What a laugh. We have weapons the Chinese have no answer to. None.
Wait, China is threatening to sink a US aircraft carrier? I doubt even Obama would tolerate that without massive military retaliation, much less Trump. Mao was willing to lose half his population in a nuclear war, but I doubt the bean-counters who run China today are that crazy.