PJ Media
David P. Goldman
Feb. 10, 2017
President Trump acknowledged the One China policy in his telephone call with China's leader Xi Jinping yesterday. Many of my conservative friends thought that a challenge to the One China policy would display America backbone. In this case Trump is exactly correct. America must stand up to China, but rejecting the One China policy is the wrong way to go about it.
"China is a territory and China is a people," Xi Jinping told Barack Obama at the November 2014 APEC Summit in Beijing, as the conversation was related to me. "China's population may rise 10% or fall 10%, but there always will be many Chinese. China's territory is inviolable and that is why we never will give up the South China Sea." Translation: If we are willing to risk war over the South China Sea, think of what we're willing to do to keep Taiwan in China.
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