Transition: Will Trump's Taiwan call further undercut climate work with China?

December 5, 2016
President-elect Trump's controversial call last week with Taiwan's president could further undermine already uncertain prospects that the two global powers will continue to work cooperatively on climate change. Shen Dingli, a professor of international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, told the New York Times that Trump's call with President Tsai Ing-wen – which broke decades of U.S. protocol – was not a formal problem because he has not yet been inaugurated, but if such approaches continue, China should...


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