China

China issued its loudest semi-official response to Trump's suggestion that he will use the "One China" policy as a bargainining chip.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to take a phone call from Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen may eventually lead to war with China. If you thought Hillary Clinton was a dangerous warmonger who might have started a war with Russia had she won the presidency in November and are happy with an apprentice politician for president, then you should know what Trump just did to China. Trump provoked the only other superpower in the world, who might have a chance of beating the U.S. at war, by dismissing the “one China” policy, saying that he is not bound by it.

In what some have seen as the first warning shot of retaliation against Trump's threats of protectionism and part of China's escalating trade war involving the auto industry, overnight China Daily reported quoting a senior state planning official that Beijing will soon slap a penalty on an "unnamed U.S. automaker for monopolistic behavior."

Submitted by Koos Jansen, BullionStar.com.

Apparently, the Obama White House and republic shill, John McCain, didn't do a good enough job cow towing to the demands of their Chinese overlords, following Trump's outrageous behavior of receiving a phone call from the democratically elected Taiwanese President and also suggesting that the American people weren't bound to accept the absurdity of a 'One China' policy.

These people would've been great friends of Germany in the 1930s and 40's, perhaps ceding to a 'One Germany' policy -- pan Europe.