<p>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&#8217;s Republic of China following president-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to take a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and part ways with decades of US foreign policy protocol.</p>
<p>&#8220;China views Taiwan as a renegade province and, since 1979, the US has acknowledged Beijing&#8217;s claim that Taiwan is part of China, with US-China relations governed by a set of protocols known as the &#8216;one China&#8217; policy,&#8221; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/donald-trump-taiwan/">explains</a> CNN.</p>

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