China will 'take off the gloves' if Trump continues on Taiwan, state media warns

[Eliot Rosewater]

Source: Reuters

China will "take off the gloves" and take strong action if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continues to provoke Beijing over Taiwan once he assumes office, two leading state-run newspapers said on Monday.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Friday, Trump said the "One China" policy was up for negotiation. China's foreign ministry, in response, said "One China" was the foundation of China-U.S. ties and was non-negotiable.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-trump-idUSKBN15001X

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In case anybody needs a translation, this means war.

[George II]

1. Maybe it means that they'll call the $650M debt he has with them?

[cstanleytech]

3. That or maybe they have something incriminating on him. nt

[DRoseDARs]

9. Chinese prostitutes peeing on him, this time. nt

[cstanleytech]

10. I was thinking more of the lines of criminal activity related to his real estate

or maybe even recordings of his making backroom deals with Russia to secure Russian assistance during the election and the Chinese do have the capability to secure such information maybe even more so than Russia since China could easily embed hidden software in so much of the electronics it makes.

[progree]

8. More like $1.25 Trillion

Outside the U.S., China is the largest foreign holder of the debt, with $1.25 trillion. It is followed closely by Japan, which holds $1.13 trillion.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/news/economy/us-debt-ownership/

[roamer65]

12. $1.25 trillion is easily monetized by the Federal Reserve.

I expect the action would be the invasion of Taiwan.

[elmac]

2. China will never harm the goose

that lays the golden egg.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Aren't we the goose the borrowed the golden egg?

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. China is run by mature adults, America wont be in 4 days.

[Feeling the Bern]

14. Ummm. . .no, China is run by children too. I live here.

[Kablooie]

17. petulant children too.

I've visited China and the people I met apologized for the long, boring politician speeches we had to sit through.

[Feeling the Bern]

18. Petulant with a simple philosophy: I want the cake and eat it too and if I can't do it, I will hold

my breath until you give me what I believe I deserve!

With all these border disputes, Beijing has backed themselves into a corner. If they give in, they lose face. If they don't give in, they risk a war over rocks.

[neverforget]

7. You would think but we just put some hotheads in the White House

and all it takes is 1 miscalculation on either side.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Wow

That is really not good.

If they dump our debt, we're screwn.

[roamer65]

11. Not right away. The Federal Reserve will monetize all of it.

Just expect inflation to really start rolling. The Chinese had better spend those dollars quickly, before they lose value.

[Initech]

13. Someone needs to tell Donnie to shut the fuck up.

[Rural_Progressive]

15. Well, however much time we have left

it sure as hell isn't going to be boring

[ReRe]

16. I heard a winger radio talk show host....

... earlier this evening pumping up the scenario concerning the NATO soldiers on the Russian borders "antagonizing" Putin and it turning into a nuke situation.

I say it will be some trouble in the South China Sea. Not a war, or anything that would make the area impassible for 1/5th of the World's trade. Something, but I don't know what.

All I know is they ARE rattling the sabers, before they get in office. GWB at least waited a couple months into his 1st term before he had Colin Powell pre-warning the world of what was to come.

[Eliot Rosewater]

19. Everything is different now from all past examples.

The person in charge here, with access to our military and nukes, is a petulant 9 yr old, in actuality.

The reports of him being borderline illiterate are coming out from the "Apprentice" producers, as well as how much of a total idiot he is.

No, we are in big trouble.