Obama Says Trump Must Consider Consequences of Any Taiwan Change
- The president-elect has questioned ‘One China’ policy
- President says Taiwan ‘as important as anything’ to Chinese
Obama: All Foreign Policy Should Be Subject to Fresh Eyes
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President Barack Obama cautioned his successor, Donald Trump, against abandoning U.S. policy on Taiwan, warning that the relationship with China is important to the U.S. economically and strategically and the reaction in Beijing could be “very significant.”
“For China, the issue of Taiwan is as important as anything on their docket. The idea of One-China is at the heart of their conception as a nation,” Obama said at his last year-end at the White House. “If you’re going to upend this understanding, you have to have thought through what the consequences are.”