Which Came First? And Where Can We Hide?

And which happened first, this...



Or, this...

I'd guess the old ghoul made a hasty meeting after the Trump had his phone call.

The phone conversation, announced first by the Trump transition team, is regarded as the first known contact between a US president or president-elect with a Taiwanese leader since the United States broke diplomatic relations with the island in 1979.

  Asia ST

Didn't take long for the DJT to find out that call was frowned upon and to whine about it.

Mrs Hillary Clinton, who as US Secretary of State devised the Obama 'pivot to Asia', irritated China in many ways, including by standing on the deck of a US aircraft carrier in Manila Bay and referring to the South China Sea as the West Philippines Sea.

Oh, wow. I missed that.

"Because some of Trump's advisers have advocated stronger US-Taiwan ties it was widely predicted that this issue could spark a major crisis between Washington and Beijing," says Dr Ian Storey of Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Iseas). "But no one predicted that this issue would blow up before Trump even took office!"

Yeah, buddies. I don't think we've seen the half of it yet.

Dr [Ian Storey of Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies] said he expected China, the world's second biggest economy and global power, to be "stunned" by the move.

"Shock will quickly turn to incandescent rage," he added.

Well that will be fun. Incandescent even.

Not just China.  Read the article.  It's looking like DJ is going to have a hornets' nest of the entire Asian continent buzzing by the time he takes the oval office.