Chinese state media rebukes Donald Trump for "Twitter foreign policy"
President-elect Donald Trump has taken to Twitter recently to sound off on foreign policy issues.
China isn’t happy.
A story about Mr. Trump’s tweets posted this week on Xinhua, China’s state news agency, said Twitter should not be used as “an instrument of foreign policy.”
“An obsession with ‘Twitter foreign policy’ is undesirable,” read the headline of commentary from Xinhua on Tuesday, according to a translation from the New York Times.
“Everyone recognizes the common sense that foreign policy isn’t child’s play, and even less is it like doing business deals,” the article said.
Mr. Trump has kept up a consistent pace on Twitter in recent weeks, posting 140-character missives on everything from Guantanamo Bay prisoners to whether he would have beaten President Obama in a hypothetical 2016 matchup.
His tweets also include frequent commentary on foreign policy — and in the last month, a handful of those tweets have been directed at China. On Monday, he tweeted to criticize the U. S.-China trade relationship and to chide China for refusing to “help with North Korea”:
China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the U. S. in totally one-sided trade, but won’t help with North Korea. Nice!
That tweet prompted China’s foreign affairs minister to respond during a press conference the following day, where he said the “essence of China-U. S. economic cooperation and trade is mutually beneficial” and that China’s position on North Korea “is consistent and clear.”
And shortly before Christmas, he took to Twitter to accuse China of “steal[ing] United States Navy research”:
China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.
Earlier in December, Mr. Trump tweeted about China’s currency manipulation:
Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into..
their country (the U. S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!
Still, the Xinhua story recognized that tweeting is a “habit” for Mr. Trump, and something they did not expect to stop once he takes office.
“Issuing tweets has become a habit for Mr. Trump,” Xinhua said. Mr. Trump, the story said, “issuing hard-line comments and taking up sensitive issues” might help him in negotiating with other countries.
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China’s national observatory issued the fog alert Tuesday in a number of northern and eastern regions. 
North Korea continues to pursue nuclear and ballistic missile technologies but the United States does not believe it is in a position to “tip” one of them with a nuclear warhead, State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said on Sunday , raising the prospect of putting parts of the United States within range. “We do not believe that at this point in time he has the capability to tip one of these with a nuclear warhead … but we do know that he continues to want to have those capabilities and the programmes continue to march in that direction,” Kirby told reporters. Asked whether he would agree with president-elect Donald Trump’s assessment that China was not helping to contain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, Kirby said: “We would not agree with that assessment.” Trump, who will take office on January 20, that North Korea would not be allowed to complete a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, although he did not say how he would stop it. “It won’t happen!” he said on Twitter. Trump’s transition spokesman, Sean Spicer, said the tweet spoke for itself but added that it meant, “Under his watch he’s going to make sure that that doesn’t happen.” Pyongyang’s action will be discussed at a meeting in Washington on Thursday between the United States, Japan and South Korea, led by Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kirby said. “No question that tensions on the Korean peninsula will be a topic of discussion [but] where that is going to take us, especially in light of Kim Jong-un’s speech, I don’t know,” Kirby said. Asked about the possibility of more sanctions against Pyongyang, he added: “We haven’t ruled out the possibility of additional sanctions.”
Sungtae (Jacky) Park is research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. 
China has hit back at Donald Trump’s claim that Beijing isn’t doing enough to rein in rogue state North Korea, cautioning the U. S. President-elect not to “escalate” an already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula through his liberal use of social media. 
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TOKYO — 
Japanese shares up more than 1 percent on Wednesday morning as the yen weakened against a stronger dollar, and after a private survey suggested the manufacturing sector might be recovering. 
