Report: Bob Dole organized Trump's Taiwan call

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SOURCE: THE HILL

URL: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/308915-report-bob-dole-organized-trumps-call-with-taiwan-president

by Jessie Hellman


Donald Trump's call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen was organized by Bob Dole, a former Republican senator and the party's 1996 presidential nominee, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Dole told the Journal that the law firm he is affiliated with does work with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. “It’s fair to say that we may have had some influence,” he said.

Trump's Friday conversation broke decades of U.S. protocol.

For several decades, the U.S. has followed the "One China" policy that doesn't acknowledge Taiwan as a nation, but instead goes along with China's view that Taiwan is a province that broke away.

President Jimmy Carter formally declared the communist People's Republic of China the sole government of China in 1979, which ended formal U.S. diplomatic relations with the nationalist government on Taiwan.

[Lando Lincoln]

Wow, I did not know Senator Dole remained active in such a way.  93 years-old.

[Frank Cannon]

Wow, I did not know Senator Dole remained active in such a way.  93 years-old.

It's the Viagra.

[Night Hides Not]

Dole's one of the top 50 lobbyists in DC. His firm Alston & Bird apparently includes China & Taiwan as clients.

[Lando Lincoln]

Dole's one of the top 50 lobbyists in DC. His firm Alston & Bird apparently includes China & Taiwan as clients.

I did not know that.  I probably should have but I didn't.  Thank you.