President-elect Donald Trump questioned in an interview broadcast Sunday whether the United States should continue its "one China policy" unless Beijing makes concessions on trade and other issues.
"I don't want China dictating to me," Trump said as he made a vehement defence of his recent phone conversation with the president of Taiwan.
"I don't know why we have to be bound by a one China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade," he added in the interview on Fox News Sunday.
He was responding to a question on his taking that call this month from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, breaking with decades of US diplomatic tradition that recognises Beijing as the sole representative of China.
Trump said he had had just a couple of hours notice that the call was coming, not weeks or longer as has been reported.
Besides trade, Trump said China was not co-operating with America on its handling of its currency, on North Korea and its nuclear weapons, or on tensions in the South China Sea, where he said China is building "a massive fortress."
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