{"id":19699,"date":"2017-02-10T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19699"},"modified":"2017-02-10T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:30:38","slug":"one-china-policy-is-ok-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19699","title":{"rendered":"One-China Policy is OK, right, Mr. President?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump now is ready to adhere to one of the more complicated elements of U.S. foreign relationships.<\/p>\n

It’s called the One-China Policy, which recognizes only one China … and it’s not Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Not long after being elected president, Trump took a phone call from Taiwan’s president and then declared the United States ought to rethink its decades-old policy that recognizes the People’s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

Bad idea, you know? The conversation between a U.S. president-elect and the leader of Taiwan was the first that had occurred since the United States recognized the PRC as the “real” China.<\/p>\n

Taiwan, China maintain complicated relationship<\/a><\/p>\n

Taiwan is, in fact, a prosperous independent nation that broke away from the Chinese mainland at the end of a bloody civil war that erupted after World War II. Taiwan’s Nationalist government set up shop on Taiwan in 1949 and for three decades it was the recognized government of China.<\/p>\n

That all changed dramatically in 1979 when the United States recognized the PRC, kicked out the Taiwanese ambassador. The United Nations booted Taiwan out, too, and welcomed the PRC.<\/p>\n

Thus, the One-China Policy was born amid an interesting mix of economic and defense-related agreements that the United States still maintains with Taiwan. We trade with the Taiwanese, we pledge to protect them if the PRC decides to retake the island nation — but we do not recognize them diplomatically.<\/p>\n

Trump spoke this week to Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, and reaffirmed out commitment to the policy that recognizes the PRC exclusively as the sole China.<\/p>\n

As for Taiwan’s relationship with the PRC, that too, is a matter of delicate maneuvering. Taipei and Beijing allow travel between the countries; family members are allowed to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n

Taiwan also believes in a “One China Policy,” but insists that the island nation — not the mainland — is the “real China.” Here’s the deal: Most of Taiwan’s inhabitants were born on the island and consider themselves to be “Taiwanese.”<\/p>\n

The president, though, needs to settle down and stick with a policy that recognizes only one China. To do anything\u00a0different is to insert the United States directly into the middle of a simmering dispute between China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump now is ready to adhere to one of the more complicated elements of U.S. foreign relationships. It’s called the One-China Policy, which recognizes only one China … and it’s not Taiwan. Not long after being elected president, Trump took a phone call from Taiwan’s president and then declared the United States ought … Continue reading One-China Policy is OK, right, Mr. President?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,6742,3694,4500,5014],"class_list":["post-19699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-one-china-policy","tag-prc","tag-taiwan","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19701,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699\/revisions\/19701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}