China’s State Media Tells Donald Trump to ‘Stop Acting Like a Diplomatic Rookie’

[Crabtownboy]

Chinese media outlets have warned that Donald Trump is threatening healthy U.S.-China relations, on which “world peace and prosperity” depend, by behaving like a “diplomatic rookie” on issues like Taiwan, trade and the South China Sea.

Comment pieces published on China’s state media channels and newspapers with ties to Beijing criticized the President-elect in response to a series of tweets he issued on Sunday, chiding China for taxing U.S. imports, devaluing its currency, and building military installations in the South China Sea. This comes after he broke with decades of diplomatic niceties on Dec. 3 and took a phone-call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen.

“Trump may dislike, distrust the diplomatic establishment in Washington D.C., and aspire to rework U.S. foreign policies”ChinaDailywrote in a Dec. 6 editorial. “But he should first come to terms with the real, not imagined, reality of international relations before wielding the scalpel, because a misstep as president will be far more damaging than one as president-elect.”

“To stop acting like the diplomatic rookie he is, the next U.S. president needs help in adapting to his forthcoming role change. Otherwise, he will make costly troubles for his country, and find himself trying to bluster his way through constant diplomatic conflagrations” ChinaDailywrote.

Even though there has been little official reaction to Trump’s tweets and talk with Tsai, China uses state media to let its policy positions be known. “The U.S. cannot (and should not) try to dictate the policy of another sovereign state,”Peoples Daily warned. “Sovereignty means that China, for example, is not always going to do what the U.S. wants.”

http://time.com/4591829/china-donald-trump-diplomatic-rookie/

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Democrats also love them some state-controlled media.

 

[Rob_BW]

Only a diplomatic rookie would use state controlled media to get their message out.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Only a diplomatic rookie would use state controlled media to get their message out.

Rob, I really expect better replies from you. You know better than what you said.

China may be many things, but rookie in diplomacy is not one of them. They have been at it for thousands of years and as I said in another post, they have long memories. Their archives are full of writings on how to handle various problems. Don't under estimate them. Trump is not dealing with other contractors. You do not survive in Chinese politics by remaining an armature or a rookie.

 

[Rob_BW]

Rob, I really expect better replies from you. You know better than what you said.

Sorry, for some reason sometimes my phone won't let me add smilies.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Sorry, for some reason sometimes my phone won't let me add smilies.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

I was at a lecture by Harrison Salisbury. The topic his just then published book, "The New Emperors, China in the Ear of Mao and Deng". It is an excellent book and I recommend it.

In his lecture he talked about the archives and how all Chinese governments go to them when confronting problems. Emperors through the centuries left behind writings on what worked and what did not work in given situations. There are no new problems, just problems with new settings and different actors on the state. As I said, don't sell them short. Trump is a sheep among wolves. He needs to be, "shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." I see neither trait in him or his advisers so far. Sadly I see pride, arrogance and most dangerous of all, ignorance.

 

[Benjamin]

China should probably stop their whining about not getting their way for change and "come to terms" that there is a new kid on the block. If they think their state sponsored media is the "diplomatic way" to put and keep Trump and the U.S. in their place perhaps they should have took a lesson from the media's failure to control the outcome around here...