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Trump Has Already Created Lots of Chaos
A Chinese scholar argues that the U.S. shouldn’t touch Taiwan—just like China wouldn’t back separatists in Texas or HawaiShortly after news broke of Donald Trump’s phone call with the head of Taiwan—the first direct communication between American and Taiwanese leaders in 37 years—one of the leading Chinese scholars of U.S.-China relations offered a stunning proposal: If the U.S. president-elect took similar actions as president, the Chinese government should suspend the world’s most important (and precarious) partnership. “I would close our embassy in Washington and withdraw our diplomats,” said Shen Dingli, a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. “I would be perfectly happy to end the relationship.”
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Friedman: Why do you make the distinction between a private citizen and the president? In just a couple months, Trump is going to be president.
Shen: Any bullshitter can say bullshit things. So I don’t care what he says. But if [and when] he is president, I really care.
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Friedman: Do you expect the United States to remain the most powerful country in the world and to lead the world under President Trump?
Shen: No. The U.S. will [experience] further decline. The Republican President George W. Bush mistakenly sent troops to Iraq. That made the U.S. decline. And Trump’s quitting of TPP will make the U.S. decline. Trump’s promise to quit the climate-change agreement will make the U.S. decline. When Trump campaigned, he said, “I want to make the U.S. great again.” But actually, he [seems to] want to make the U.S. decline more.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/12/trump-taiwan-call-china/509600/
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Friedman: Why do you make the distinction between a private citizen and the president? In just a couple months, Trump is going to be president.
Shen: Any bullshitter can say bullshit things. So I don’t care what he says. But if [and when] he is president, I really care.
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Friedman: Do you expect the United States to remain the most powerful country in the world and to lead the world under President Trump?
Shen: No. The U.S. will [experience] further decline. The Republican President George W. Bush mistakenly sent troops to Iraq. That made the U.S. decline. And Trump’s quitting of TPP will make the U.S. decline. Trump’s promise to quit the climate-change agreement will make the U.S. decline. When Trump campaigned, he said, “I want to make the U.S. great again.” But actually, he [seems to] want to make the U.S. decline more.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/12/trump-taiwan-call-china/509600/
