WMAL Interview - MICHAEL AUSLIN -12.05.16

INTERVIEW – MICHAEL AUSLIN – Resident scholar and Director of Japan Studies at American Enterprise Institute and author of upcoming book “The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region” (Yale University Press, January 2017)

The significance of the Trump phone call with Taiwan:
Trump speaks with Taiwanese president, a major break with decades of U.S. policy on China.
Donald Trump rails against China as team runs damage control over Taiwan.
Amb. John Bolton on Trump’s Taiwan call: China doesn’t tell us who we can talk to.
White House wasn’t told about Trump’s Taiwan call till after it happened, official says possible fallout “significant”
China lodges complaint with US over Trump’s Taiwan phone call. China has lodged “solemn representations” with the US over a call between the president-elect, Donald Trump, and Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen.