Trump reaffirming the One China policy leaves many suspecting illegal activity
Analysts suspect Trump has created room for future negotiations with President Xi
The Epoch Times is reporting that reaction over President Trump’s reaffirming of the “One China” policy (which refers to the United States’ severance of official diplomatic relations with the Republic of China, Taiwan’s official name, in 1979) is due to many being suspicios that an illegal deal may have taken place. This policy is a pillar of U.S.–China relations as currently conceived.
Trump first broke the United States’ long-standing diplomatic protocol by receiving a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. He later said that the sensitive “One China” policy was negotiable in the event of a trade war between the United States and China. But when Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke in their first telephone call on Feb. 9, Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor the One China’ policy, the White House said in a statement.
I traveled to Chinatown, Los Angeles over the weekend and spoke to 40 people within the Chinese community and 29 of them suspected that a deal of some sort was brokered between Trump and Xi so that Trump could provide himself with room for future negotiations with Taiwan. The reasoning behind most of their suspicions was that they believe Trump to be businessman and an opportunist, not a man who genuinely cares about the affairs of Chinese or Asian people in general.
