Trump aides: of course he knows about ‘one China’ policy
Aides and surrogates of President-elect Donald Trump were in damage control mode on Sunday as they attempted to calm nerves over a rift with China due to Trump’s unprecedented call with Taiwan’s president. Trump’s call was the first from a president or president-elect since 1979, when America adopted its so-called one-China policy. Vice President-elect Mike Pence downplayed the incident on several television shows on Sunday, while Kellyanne Conway told Fox that Trump was well aware of the one-China policy. On Sunday, Trump railed against China on Twitter: “Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the US doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea?” he tweeted. “I don’t think so!”
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