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.