The biggest surprise since Donald Trump’s election victory is his decision to pick a fight with China. Not once in his campaign did he mention the word Taiwan. Yet all of a sudden there is now a threat over America’s “One China” policy — a bedrock in today’s unstable global order. Beijing has so far chosen to blame a wily Taiwan for the call between Mr Trump and his Taiwanese counterpart — the US president-elect is “as ignorant as a child”, says China’s state media.
唐納•川普(Donald Trump)贏得美國大選以來最令人震驚的地方,是他選擇與中國對抗。他在選戰中一次都沒提到過臺灣。然而,突然之間,美國的「一個中國」(One China)政策(這是當今不穩定的全球秩序的一個基石)遭到了威脅。到目前爲止,對於川普和臺灣總統之間的通話,中國政府選擇將其歸咎於狡猾的臺灣方面——中國官媒表示,美國候任總統「懵懂得像個小孩子」。