Before he even took office, Donald Trump signaled that his policies toward China would differ drastically from his predecessor. They still do.
Less than a month after his shocking 2016 election upset, the president-elect answered his phone in Trump Tower and had a pleasant 10-minute conversation with the president of China.
Not Beijing, China. Taiwan, China, as in Republic of. It was the first time an American president or president-elect had talked with that country's leader in nearly four decades. China does not recognize Taiwan as anything but a renegade lump of its own vast territory.
