On Friday, cable news programs plastered hyperbolic chyrons across television screens, and newspapers littered their front-pages with ominous predictions, warning of an end-of-days showdown with the People’s Republic of China following president-elect Donald Trump’s decision to take a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and part ways with decades of US foreign policy protocol.
“China views Taiwan as a renegade province and, since 1979, the US has acknowledged Beijing’s claim that Taiwan is part of China, with US-China relations governed by a set of protocols known as the ‘one China’ policy,” explains CNN.
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