December 12, 2016

"US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday publicly suggested that the one-China policy can be used as a bargaining chip to ask Beijing to make compromises in areas such as trade deals with Washington. The calculating businessman might feel shrewd about seizing China's fate by the throat through the Taiwan question. However, the truth is this inexperienced president-elect probably has no knowledge of what he's talking about. He has overestimated the US' capability of dominating the world and fails to understand the limitation of US powers in the current era.

China has become a country with substantial strength among the countries in the West Pacific Ocean. It has never expanded its battlefront and therefore accumulated enough power to deal with any strategic challenge in its peripheral areas. Especially in the Taiwan Strait, China is now confident enough to arm-wrestle with the US."

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