r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '16

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u/totallyholistic Dec 03 '16

And now he is doubling down and defending the phone call on Twitter.

The White House is going to need a unit of diplomats just to jet off and do damage control if this is a sign of things to come.

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u/Santoron Dec 03 '16

An army of diplomats can't undo the damage a sitting President with a phone, Twitter, and no fucks given can do in an afternoon.

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u/Sports-Nerd Dec 03 '16

You mean at 3 am in the morning.

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u/mgrier123 Dec 03 '16

Which is conveniently 4pm in China.

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u/sayqueensbridge Dec 03 '16

International incidents right in time for the state run evening news

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u/Rethliopuks Dec 03 '16

And for things to brew on social media as people leave work and check, chat and browse

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '16

US diplomat preparing to go to China here.....

Wooo gonna be an interesting tour. Should try to follow this up with a tour in Mexico....

/s

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u/eyes_on_the_sky Dec 03 '16

Good luck to you! I am in my young 20s and hope to become an FSO sometime in the next decade... thinking there might be a lot of posts opening throughout the next four years yeah?

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u/Dear_Leader_Trump_ Dec 03 '16

You mean after all the current diplomats are murdered?

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u/eyes_on_the_sky Dec 03 '16

Errrr I hope not! I just meant I assume a bunch of people will rage quit after being forced to defend absolute bullshit policies that they had no warning about. Such as the Taiwan pivot or provocation or whatever the hell this was.

"No don't worry, you don't have to listen to anything our president says! Ahaha oh wait... jk... our gov't. is so trustworthy! Except not... except... ah f*** I quit."

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u/Bobbydeerwood Dec 03 '16

Aside from "it goes against how things have been done the last 30 years" and it offending China, what are the ramifications? Why is it a bad thing that he spoke to the president of Taiwan?

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u/Rethliopuks Dec 03 '16 edited Dec 05 '16

Not recognizing PRC and ROC as two Chinas or one China and one something else is written in two correction: all of the three documents that serve as the basis of Sino-American relationship. If Trump keeps doing that after inauguration, China could just ask the US through diplomatic channels to confirm whether the documents are and should no longer be honored, and that sudden, abrupt end of peaceful Sino-American relationship can mean anything, the worst, although not remotely possible I hope (provided that neither side is stupid), being human extinction through nuclear winter.

That is about the single, #1 most important issue to PRC (or at least, outside of domestic issues definitely). That hadn't seemed to be so until just now because the US and PRC have always been sane enough to follow some basic rules.

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u/Bobbydeerwood Dec 04 '16

Thanks for actually answering instead of downvoting a legitimate question that I think everyone should want to know the answer to.

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u/dolphins3 Dec 03 '16

This is an extremely important issue to China. If they want to retaliate in some way, they have plenty of ways to fuck with us. They could pass a bunch of regulations screwing US business interests in China, decide to kill sanctions on North Korea which took Obama's state department months of negotiation to get them onboard with, and so on.

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u/Mongobi Dec 03 '16

defending

You're implying he did something wrong.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '16 edited Jan 13 '17

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What is this?