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.
I was unaware of these provocative flights so I am altering my supposition to agree with your assessment, China is on the prod quite apart from whatever telephone calls Trump might have made.
The parallel with Russian overflights cannot be escaped and we are increasingly being confronted with the potential for a close Russian/Chinese axis, possibly with connection to Iran, parts of Iraq and parts of Syria which would be strategically threatening indeed and likely to terrify our allies.
If that axis forms, it will be imperative that we hold our allies in line and that will be no easy undertaking considering the pusillanimous nature of our friends in NATO. In Asian waters, Fox's just reported that the president of the Philippines has ordered the American military out.
Can you imagine if Trump had not been elected?
