Currently, it serves Trump's interest to be both the President-elect and to be seen as inexperienced, unprepared, etc. He can tweak China with Taiwan and test their response. China was quite gentle in their response. Then, Trump tweets about China's alleged positions and affronts to the USA. This tweet tells us that Trump seemed to know what he was doing with the Taiwan phone call.
Any way you look t this, Trump is heading down a dangerous path. The most important issues with China are North Korea's nuclear ambitions and the US debt held by China. Taiwan and trade phoney ways to appease Trump's voters. The debt is a huge issue and has potential to interfere his plan with rebuilding the infrastructure. Tweeting will prevent effective diplomatic relations with China.
Diplomacy by tweet is dangerous, short sighted, rude and just plain wrong.
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