Krauthammer: Trump Needs To Be Briefed on Talking to World Leaders; Otherwise It Could Cause a ‘Diplomatic Rupture’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "And in the Chinese world. The Chinese are extremely sensitive about these nuances in diplomacy. They have been at it for 4,000 years. The rules were laid down by Kissinger and Nixon when they made the opening. It was that we would be allies of Taiwan but we would have to observe certain rules so that we would not be contradicting the notion that we and the Chinese agreed on at the time that Taiwan is part of China. Once you have communications between the president of the U.S. Directly the president of Taiwan, then you are impinging on that. It wouldn’t really matter. This is politically correct except for the fact that the Chinese when they get upset can do things like take over an island here or there or tear up an agreement or start threatening or do other things that could cause a crisis. I don’t think this is ING to cause one. Trump will have to be briefed on stuff like this, particularly in the Middle East, where there’s a code language or if you say the wrong word, which is ordinary language, like even-handed, it has a meaning which is not the Normal meaning in Normal discourse. It could cause a real diplomatic rupture."