Donald Trump And Southeast Asia: The US Deal With Taiwan and China Under Donald Trump Administration. New Face Of US Foreign Policy?
Southeast Asia will never be business as usual with the United States giving the current "Personal Foreign Policy" of the incoming US President. Donald Trump's election once said is a big blow to Asia and Europe and China is taking the lead.
President-elect Donald Trump made his own way to communicate and express his opinion than any other US President did or any world leaders for the matter. He takes it to his own hand in Social Media giving his outburst limiting to nothing including foreign relation.
This behavior threatens US international relations and becoming a great sign of uncertainties for this administration. Trump should learn that policy-making and diplomacy need the certain elements in looking to different options providing a win-win result, proper deliberation for good negotiation, and cool head.
Beijing took the provocative stand when the incoming President made a phone call to Taiwan President. The mere intervention of an incoming US President on Asia took a controversial move affecting the tensions of these nations.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen is the first Asian leader communicated by an incoming US President since 1970s' and made it lenient but eventually got out to public attention. Trump, however, is to blame because he tried to brag about it in public to intimidate China.
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and candidate as Secretary of State said, "He showed the dictators in Beijing that he's not a pushover." He further expressed "China has had an enormously aggressive foreign policy and by him actually going to Taiwan, he's showing the people in Beijing that they cannot have this aggressive foreign policy and expect to be treated just the same by an American president."
The US intervention in Asia is elevating the tension on a higher level. It is sending the message that China should take a slow move with its foreign policy, stop militarizing the region, and stop claiming the islands in the South China Sea.
