US-China ties: No need to challenge the status quo on Taiwan

POLITICIANS and pundits have speculated in recent days that US President-elect Donald Trump would reverse the process of deterioration in the Russo-American relationship when he enters office in January.

Less attention has been focused on a more intriguing and worrisome notion - that Mr Trump was also intent on taking a tougher US stand vis-à-vis China in the geo-strategic and geo-economic arenas. In fact, he com…