The paper said Trump’s China policy will hinge on how well he understands the overlapping interests of the world’s two largest economies and whether he will be motivated enough to change the existing structure with force. At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, he said, “China and (the) USA will never have a trade war”.
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For nearly four decades, Washington has accepted Beijing’s so-called “One China” principle, recognizing the Beijing government as the only real representative of China.
Huang said some Chinese dissidents are optimistic about the Trump administration, hoping that it will take a tougher line with Beijing on human rights issues than the outgoing president Barack Obama did.
Feulner, an adviser to Trump’s transition team, said that Taiwan should not worry so much, according to Yu.
Olaf Kastner, president and CEO of BMW Group Region China, said that the world appears to be in a transitional period in which staying competitive is even more hard, and it is in this context that Germany has embarked on its Industry 4.0 initiative.
After the call between Tsai and Trump last month, China demanded Trump drop any designs to give Taiwan formal attention. “The US system advocates an assertive political style, but inner modesty is essential”.
The one thing that China’s state-controlled media did choose to emphasize was the cost of the inauguration event, at about $100 million.
English language newspaper China Daily claimed that if the future president “Beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves” if it is provoked further, while The Global Times said Beijing would take “strong countermeasures” against Washington.
In a rebuke to Trump, President Xi Jinping warned in a speech this week a “trade war” would harm everyone involved.
More recently, he has declared the One China policy, under which Washington agrees not to officially recognise Taiwan, is up for negotiation and a key member of his team suggested the USA and its allies should block access to islands Beijing has built in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.
“Trump is going to push the Chinese”, Balding says.
Would China really break off diplomatic relations?
China is the world’s second-largest economy behind the US, and Trump railed during his campaign against alleged Chinese cheating at trade and manipulation of its currency.
“Not everything in the world can be bargained or traded off”, Hua told reporters. It’s got some real problems… The American Chamber of Commerce in China said Beijing is preparing to retaliate if Trump acts.
Trump’s rhetoric on China has made the Taiwan situation stressful and “added fuel to the fire”, he said. “It will be interesting to watch how China reacts to this”.
“Conflict is inevitable”, Jia Qingguo, a Peking University worldwide relations expert, told the Global Times.
“Getting into the space of something like Taiwan just risks destabilizing that relationship without any potential benefit that I can foresee”.
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“It’s clear that investors have reached a level where they are prepared to wait and see what the Trump administration has to offer”, Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets Asia Pacific in Sydney, told Bloomberg News. “And yet it is completely possible because he is such a contradictory person”.
