Let's see what Zero does now... He will no doubt refrain from making this charge publicly but have his surrogates blame Trump and claim this is a reaction by China to the "offensive" telephone call with Taiwan.
In that he will probably be right but we ought not to believe that we are dealing with the real problem in this tit-for-tat but only the symptoms of an increasingly aggressive and lawless China. We make a phone call, they steal. The left will use this as evidence that Trump is ignorant and clumsy in matters of diplomacy and international relations and therefore a danger in the Oval Office.
We must understand that this sort of irruption is simply the consequence of a situation that has been permitted to get out of control by eight years of Obama's neglect.
Meanwhile, we are entering a very dangerous month until Obama is out of office. He clearly will not have the country behind him to take action, just as he clearly does not have the country behind him to take action against the Russians for their allegedly hacking. Any action he takes will likely only spin out of control and he should refrain from any brinksmanship even at a diplomatic rather than a military level.
He will no doubt refrain from making this charge publicly but have his surrogates blame Trump and claim this is a reaction by China to the "offensive" telephone call with Taiwan. In that he will probably be right but we ought not to believe that we are dealing with the real problem in this tit-for-tat but only the symptoms of an increasingly aggressive and lawless China. We make a phone call, they steal. The left will use this as evidence that Trump is ignorant and clumsy in matters of diplomacy and international relations and therefore a danger in the Oval Office.
Prediction. The MSM will provide him with a huge softball question at his press conference today making the linkage for him. Obama will respond that Presidents must be careful in their actions and use of words to avoid any misunderstandings, especially with our relationship with the PRC. He will say that this does not excuse China's actions, but we must avoid precipitating such actions.
It is BS to claim that the PRC action is linked to the telephone conversation. It is a linkage that Obama and the MSM want to make to avoid the other actions that the PRC has already taken without any push back by us.
Less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Taiwan’s president over the phone, China flew a pair of long-range nuclear-capable bombers around Taiwan for the first time.
On Nov. 26, two Chinese Xian H-6 bombers, along with two escort planes, a Tupolev Tu-154 and Shaanxi Y-8, flew around the island of Taiwan from mainland China, taking off and landing from two separate Chinese military bases.
The escort jets were used to collect radar information and conduct other surveillance on American allies such as Japan. The Chinese bombers stayed in international airspace, according to officials.