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Taiwan Activists, Global Times Weigh in on Trump-Tsai Call

Official anxiety over the recent election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president appeared to mount in China last week when the president-elect flouted decades of diplomatic tradition by speaking to Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen on a phone call, referring to her as the “president of Taiwan” in a follow-up tweet. While some immediately speculated that Trump’s move was a symptom of the businessman and reality television star’s political