--- title: Donald Trump Shouldn’t Use Realpolitik With China for Taiwan description: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump should be wary challenging China on the Taiwan issue, which Beijing cites as one of its “core interests” canonical: https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/ author: Charlie Campbell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-15T07:43:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:04:22.161Z article:section: World og:title: Trump Shouldn’t Play Games With China Over Taiwan og:description: The President-elect's courting of Russia set an unfortunate example for Beijing og:url: https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt671c484afb259729/6988b30cab6d7768e36ac44e/gettyimages-629260634.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CHINA-US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TAIWAN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Shouldn’t Play Games With China Over Taiwan twitter:description: The President-elect's courting of Russia set an unfortunate example for Beijing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt671c484afb259729/6988b30cab6d7768e36ac44e/gettyimages-629260634.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Donald Trump Really Shouldn’t Play Games With China Over Taiwan > Sponsored content. 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Trump went where no U.S. commander-in-chief had gone since diplomatic relations were restored with China in 1979 — by speaking directly to the President of Taiwan, the island-state of 23 million that is essentially an independent country._  by [Charlie Campbell / Beijing](https://time.com/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell / Beijing Editor at Large Dec 15, 2016 7:43 AM UTC  A Chinese-language magazine featuring U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is seen at a bookstore in Beijing on Dec. 12, 2016 A Chinese-language magazine featuring U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is seen at a bookstore in Beijing on Dec. 12, 2016Greg Baker—AFP/Getty Images  by [Charlie Campbell / Beijing](https://time.com/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell / Beijing Editor at Large Dec 15, 2016 7:43 AM UTC East Asian geopolitics is a tapestry of fictions. Beijing insists Taiwan is part of China, despite the island of 23 million being self-governing for over half a century. The constitution of Taiwan — officially called the Republic of China, a legacy of the routed Nationalists’ flight across the strait in 1949 following China’s civil war — still claims dominion of all of the Chinese mainland and even Mongolia. The U.S. concedes Taiwan is part of China, having broken off diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979, yet is treaty-obliged to sell the island the weapons it uses to protect itself from Beijing. One can have sympathy for Donald Trump not wanting to partake in such a charade, which is commonly known as the “one China” principle. The U.S. President-elect had the backing of many people in Taiwan when on Dec. 2 he accepted a [phone call ](http://time.com/4589641/donald-trump-china-taiwan-call/)from its President, Tsai Ing-wen. Owing to “one China,” which was negotiated by an earlier Nationalist, or Kuomintang (KMT), government in Taiwan, it was the first direct contact between the leaders of Taiwan and the U.S for almost four decades. When Beijing cried foul, Trump sent a series of unrepentant tweets, culminating with an interview on _Fox on Sunday_ during which he said “one China” was up for negotiation and dependent on what Beijing does for the U.S. in return. **Read More:** [_‘Trump Truly Is a Mad Dog’: How Chinese Social Media Melted After the Taiwan Call_](http://time.com/4591566/donald-trump-taiwan-china-weibo-twitter-tsai-ing-wen-social-media/) “Trump’s taking a more realpolitik approach, saying there are no sacred cows, we won’t be pushed around and everything is on the table,” says Professor Nick Bisley, an Asia expert at Australia’s La Trobe University. But Trump should be wary of wielding realpolitik in this land of fictions. Beijing regularly cites the “Taiwan question” as one of its “core interests,” and the topic is toxic even among otherwise politically inert Chinese. On Wednesday, An Fengshan, a spokesman for China’s policymaking Taiwan Affairs Office, [said](http://time.com/4601840/china-donald-trump-taiwan-one-china-policy/) that “peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait will be seriously impacted” if the U.S. wavers on “one China.” For Taiwan, the “one China” policy is partly a millstone, precluding the island from a seat at the U.N. or from joining potentially lucrative free trade groupings. But conversely, the agreement — otherwise known as the “1992 Consensus” — has allowed peaceful ties to flourish across a previously truculent Strait. Today, tourists and exchange students flock in both directions and 40% of Taiwan’s exports go to the mainland. Taiwan has a lot to gain from official recognition but even more to lose. “In the short term the \[Taiwan\] government seems to be very excited about \[Trump addressing ‘one China’\],” says Professor Tang Shaocheng, an international-relations expert at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University. “But the consequences — the reaction from Beijing — is still unpredictable.” Taiwan would bear the brunt of a metastasizing Sino-U.S. relationship, though Trump has never mentioned what the island’s citizens desire during his bating of the Chinese leadership. Instead, the President-elect has treated the case like a business deal, jostling for the smallest advantage, while needling the world’s second largest economy over[ trade tariffs](http://time.com/4385989/donald-trump-trade-china-speech/) and alleged currency manipulation. “Trump is trying to get some more bargaining chips to use later with Beijing,” adds Tang. “Taiwan is just a leverage point for Trump.” And Trump’s actions elsewhere are recasting the rules of the game and further imperiling the island’s people. **Read More:** [_Trump’s Doubting of ‘One China’ Has Sparked Both Hope and Fear in Taiwan_](http://time.com/4597532/donald-trump-taiwan-one-china/) The other headline of Trump’s nascent foreign policy is [warming ties](http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/) with Russia. Trump repeatedly praised President Vladmir Putin during his presidential campaign, flying in the face of the international condemnation prompted by Moscow’s 2014 annexing of the Crimea, not to mention its steadfast support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. On Wednesday, Trump [named his candidate](http://time.com/4598968/russia-kremlin-rex-tillerson-donald-trump/) for Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil chief with a long history of deals with the Kremlin, and who was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship in 2013\. The nod raised eyebrows even within Trump’s own party. “I don’t know what Mr. Tillerson’s relationship with Vladimir Putin was,” Senator John McCain told Fox News on Saturday. “But I’ll tell you it is a matter of concern to me.” What exactly Trump hopes to gain from courting Putin is unclear. The real estate mogul may have been elected on promises to put “America first,” but Putin is a Russian nationalist of the deepest dye and unlikely to yield much of consequence to Washington. One theory is that Trump is maneuvering for a “reverse Nixon” strategy: teaming up with Moscow to isolate Beijing, in a mirror of U.S. policy to counter the Soviet Union in the 1970s. However, that is unlikely to bear fruit. According to Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center think tank, Beijing and Moscow have never been as close as they are today. “I would call them a ‘détente’ state of relations,” says Trenin. “That’s somewhere between a strategic partnership and a full-fledged alliance.” **Read More:**[ _China Says Donald Trump’s Suggestion of Closer U.S.-Taiwan Ties Are ‘Out of the Question’_](http://time.com/4597446/donald-trump-one-china-taiwan-global-times/) Chinese President Xi Jinping’s seminal [One Belt, One Road](http://time.com/4457044/xi-jinping-one-belt-one-road-obor-south-china-sea-economic-trade-business/) economic strategy — a rekindling of the iconic land and maritime Silk Road though infrastructure and development projects — is dependent on rosy relations with Russia and particularly Central Asia, which is largely beholden to the Kremlin. Today, Russia is the [world’s top oil exporter](http://www.forbes.com/sites/timdaiss/2016/08/05/move-over-saudi-arabia-russia-is-selling-more-oil-to-china-than-you/#474793772971) — accounting for 70% of all national exports — and its [top customer](https://www.rt.com/business/335498-china-germany-oil-consumer/) is China, which bought 22 million tons in the first half of this year. Squabbles over disputed territory in Central Asia have been solved with surprising prudence and a raft of pipeline and other infrastructure [deals have been struck](http://time.com/4374519/china-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-one-belt-one-road/). “Relations are robust and I can only see them getting stronger,” says Trenin. By contrast, the U.S. has little to offer Russia. But Trump’s fawning of Putin does have an effect. Trump announced Tillerson’s appointment just as Assad’s Russian-backed troops [retook Aleppo](http://time.com/4602059/aleppo-citizens-messages-heartbreaking/), displacing thousands and reportedly slaughtering scores of innocents. But Beijing is most acutely aware that the Kremlin suffered few repercussion from its seizing of Crimea, other than economic sanctions it shrugged aside (and Trump could soon [lift them at a stoke](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-russia-sanctions-232584) of his pen). If Trump wants to put ethics aside and talk realpolitik: What would the U.S. do if China decided to retake Taiwan? **Read More:** [_Donald Trump Details Plan to Rewrite Global Trade Rules_](http://time.com/4385989/donald-trump-trade-china-speech/) To rephrase: What could it do? The U.S. military is stronger that China’s overall, though a war in China’s coastal waters would be bloody and impossible to win. The Philippines, traditionally America’s staunchest ally, has become antagonistic with Washington and chummy with China since President Rodrigo Duterte took office this year. There are also resurgent calls to remove U.S. troops from bases in South Korea and Japan, who both list China as their largest trading partners. Beijing has built islands — dubbed unsinkable aircraft carriers — in the South China Sea, which new satellite images [indicate contain significant weaponry](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38319253). Not to forget that Trump campaigned on drawing down commitments on costly wars overseas. “Xi is a tough guy and has shown unprecedented tolerance for Trump’s arrogance,” says Professor Shi Yinhong, director of the Center on American Studies at Beijing’s Renmin University. “But if Trump still wants to mess with China’s core interests after he becomes President, Sino-U.S. ties will suffer the greatest damage since \[the resumption of diplomatic relations\]. China will not compromise.” Trump thinks he is being clever by shaking up the status quo in East Asia, but there is a reason why all six preceding U.S. Presidents have firmly stuck to the convenient fiction of “one China.” In a game of true realpolitik when everything is on the table, China knows exactly what it wants — and it also now knows what it can probably get away with. _— With reporting by Zhang Chi / Beijing_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/"},"headline":"Why Donald Trump Really Shouldn’t Play Games With China Over Taiwan","datePublished":"2016-12-15T07:43:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:04:22.161Z","description":"The U.S. President-elect has said the “one China” policy was up for negotiation and dependent on what Beijing does for the U.S. in return","url":"https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/","keywords":["Donald Trump","russia","China","Xi Jinping","Vladimir Putin","Taiwan","Foreign Relations"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt671c484afb259729/6988b30cab6d7768e36ac44e/gettyimages-629260634.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlie Campbell / Beijing"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt671c484afb259729/6988b30cab6d7768e36ac44e/gettyimages-629260634.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CHINA-US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TAIWAN","caption":"CHINA-US-POLITICS-TRUMP-TAIWAN","creditText":"Greg Baker—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/","name":"Why Donald Trump Really Shouldn’t Play Games With China Over Taiwan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Donald Trump Angers China With Historic Phone Call to Taiwan’s President","description":"Trump went where no U.S. commander-in-chief had gone since diplomatic relations were restored with China in 1979 — by speaking directly to the President of Taiwan, the island-state of 23 million that is essentially an independent country.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/doNXIBBe/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-12-03T16:55:41.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/doNXIBBe.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/","duration":"PT55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4603128/china-taiwan-russia-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-donald-trump-realpolitik/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```