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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur pal, Donald Drumpf, is doing "twitter diplomacy" with China*
*When people start using that term remember DSB was the first to coin it
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Our pal, Donald Drumpf, is doing "twitter diplomacy" with China* (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2016
OP
If real, it is just one more embarrassment wrought upon our country by this buffoon
etherealtruth
Dec 2016
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)1. Sad. Is this real?
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)2. If real, it is just one more embarrassment wrought upon our country by this buffoon
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)4. Oh yeah.
President-elect Donald Trump has risked further inflaming US relations with China, after he used Twitter on Saturday to accuse China of an unpresidented (sic) act in its seizing of an unmanned American submarine this week.
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His message itself without precedent given his status as a president-elect commenting on an international incident before assuming power was likely to worsen fears of increased US-China tensions under his presidency that have grown over his rhetoric on trade and policy towards Taiwan.
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On Friday, in a press conference at the White House, Barack Obama had cautioned Trump against allowing relations with China to slip into full conflict mode.
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On Thursday, Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Guardian the seizure of the drone looked like signalling from the Chinese in response to Trumps Taiwan call.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/17/donald-trump-china-unpresidented-act-us-navy-drone
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His message itself without precedent given his status as a president-elect commenting on an international incident before assuming power was likely to worsen fears of increased US-China tensions under his presidency that have grown over his rhetoric on trade and policy towards Taiwan.
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On Friday, in a press conference at the White House, Barack Obama had cautioned Trump against allowing relations with China to slip into full conflict mode.
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On Thursday, Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Guardian the seizure of the drone looked like signalling from the Chinese in response to Trumps Taiwan call.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/17/donald-trump-china-unpresidented-act-us-navy-drone
madokie
(51,076 posts)3. I don't do twitter
May have to start now though
my luck the brown shirts would be at my door first thing though
rug
(82,333 posts)5. The U.S. will be unpresidented in a month.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)8. What are we going to do, Rug?
Trump makes George W. Bush look like Albert Einstein.
rug
(82,333 posts)10. Personally, I'm giving him no credence for anything he says
and no authority for anything he does.
Anyone in power possesses it only to the extent people accept it.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)9. hopefully he won't be presidented but if he is
we'll at least have fun with his stoooopid statements
spanone
(135,884 posts)6. and showing his ignorance to the world.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)7. "Unpresidented" act? It's a good thing he's told us he's really smart.
Otherwise, we might start to think that he's an idiot.