http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us...hina.html?_r=0
This is just the first giant gaffe of the "bull who takes the china shop with him". I was talking sometimes a few months ago about the subtlety and nuance required by a president to interact on a international level. You have be careful, and you also have to know a few things.
Either:
Trump was clueless as to why he shouldn't be talking with Taiwan, after the US has gone to great lengths for many years to not recognize them as a government.
Trump knew what a hand grenade this call would be, and went ahead with it anyway to see what would happen -- which I doubt, because he doesn't know things.
Someone close to Trump convinced him to do this for their own end because they know he's ignorant about the possible implications.
Any one of those scenarios is BAD. Ladies and gentlemen...the president of the United States of America. Enjoy him because he's not even in office yet and already being a clueless dickhead. This is what you wanted...right?