Donald Trump scolded by China for ‘not being able to keep his mouth shut’ after call with Taiwanese leader
The President-elect was warned he could be creating costly troubles for his country
CHINESE propaganda blasted President-elect Donald Trump as a “diplomatic rookie” and warned that the next American leader should shut up.
The scolding came days after Trump took a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan, a breach of diplomatic norms that apparently upset the Communist power.
"As president-elect, Trump can expect some forgiveness even when he is shooting from the hip. But things will be different when he becomes president,” the China Daily stated.
Almost immediately following Trump's phone call Friday with the Taiwan leader, a media firestorm began.
Trump threw gasoline on the flames by explicitly calling out China on his personal Twitter account.
"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 U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!” the president-elect wrote.
A US leader has not spoken to his Taiwanese counterpart in nearly four decades.
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