Since President-Elect Trump won the U.S. presidential election in late 2016, his personality as well as his harsh statements have been criticized in the international geopolitical arena.
In particular, the Chinese government used local mass media to announce their determination to show a tough response to President-Elect Trump’s ambiguous attitude to Taiwan. It’s not a secret that Mr. Trump has seen China as one of the major threats to the USA. This means, that the China-US relations may well get tense in the near future after Mr. Trump moves to the White House in a couple of days.
It seems that Mr. Trump is trying to manipulate China by hinting that he will change his attitude to Taiwan, if his Chinese colleagues change their attitude to the principles of global trade as well as the development of the global reserve currency. It seems that this stand point shown by President-Elect Trump made China angry.
All in all, it should be noted that China warned the USA about the likelihood of a tough response if the USA recognizes Taiwan and doesn’t support the “One China” policy developed by China. China doesn’t have a choice but to want Donald Trump about the consequences. Donald Trump is now busy getting ready for the inauguration, so his response to the warning is unknown at this point.
Experts say that it’s now beneficial for the USA to spoil the relations with China, especially as they were hard to build. The two superpowers are really ambitious, and these are the world’s 2 biggest economies. Anyway, President-Elect Trump promised to focus on domestic problems first, which is why it’s unclear what will come out of his presidency and how it will influence the relations with China. That remains to be seen…
