China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, told U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday that the two countries should develop ties in the proper direction, amid unease in Beijing over U. S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments on Taiwan and trade.
Trump, due to take office on Jan. 20, has angered China by speaking by telephone to Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, casting doubt on the incoming administration’s commitment to only recognizing the Beijing government, and not Taiwan, under a « one China » policy.
Trump has left open the possibility of meeting Tsai if she visits the United States after he is sworn in. He also has rattled Beijing by appointing people in his administration who are critical of China’s trade practices.
Wang told Kerry ties were at an « important stage » and that cooperative achievements were « not easy to come by.  »
« Both sides should take great care to jointly safeguard and ensure the proper direction of development in bilateral relations, » Wang said in a telephone call with Kerry, according to a statement on his ministry’s website.
The ministry cited Kerry as saying maintaining the « one China » policy was the position of both of the main U. S. parties, the Democrats and Trump’s Republicans.
China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, and thinks she wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province ineligible for state-to-state relations.
The United States, which switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, has acknowledged the Chinese position that there is only « one China » and that Taiwan is part of it.
China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since 1949, when Mao Zedong’s Communist forces won the Chinese civil war and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island.
Tsai will transit through Houston and San Francisco during a visit this month to allies in Latin America, a stopover China has called on the United States to block.
Chinese policymakers are also wary of Trump’s protectionist stance on trade, and he has promised a hard line on China, threatening to raise tariffs on its exports to the United States.
The Xinhua state news agency, which usually reflects government thinking, this week chided Trump for his proclivity for criticizing China on Twitter, saying the social media platform « should not become a foreign policy tool.  »
« There will be fresh flowers outside the door to China’s Commerce Ministry, but a big stick hidden behind it, » the paper said.

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WASHINGTON — Just this week, President-elect Donald Trump has tackled not only Russian hacking but House ethics, Guantanamo, Obamacare, crime and the auto industry through tweets.
On Monday, he had this this message about North Korea for China:
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 prompted a response from China’s state news agency: “Twitter shouldn’t become an instrument of foreign policy. Foreign policy isn’t child’s play,” it said.
But Twitter has proven to be an important tool for Trump; A modern way of talking directly to the people.
Trump says his social media power key to victory
Like Franklin Roosevelt did through radio and John F. Kennedy with television, in today’s social media era, Trump’s tweets can dominate a news cycle.
Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” asked him after the election if he would keep it up as president.
“I’m not saying I love it, but it does get the word out. When you give me a bad story or when you give me an inaccurate story or when somebody other than you and another network, or whatever, because of course, CBS would never do a thing like that right? I have a method of fighting back,” he said.
As part of the transition, incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus met last month with the men who have done the job for other presidents, includi…
Two former presidential chiefs of staff, Democrat Bill Daley and Republican Andy Card, told “CBS This Morning” they don’t expect him to walk away from the medium he’s made his own.
“I think the tweet world is going to be our world for a long time,” Card said.
“Think before you tweet or speak. Before, it was before you speak. Now it is before you tweet,” Daley added.
Beyond foreign capitals, Trump’s tweets also are rattling corporate boardrooms. They  have even affected the stock price of specific companies. 
As a result, some corporations are making plans for how to respond if Trump tweets about them.

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People visit ice sculptures illuminated by colored lights as fireworks explode in the night sky marking the opening of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival to celebrate the new year in Harbin, China, Jan. 5, 2017.

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The Philippines will push for the completion of the framework for a code of conduct in the South China Sea when it hosts this year’s summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) amid China’s militarization of the disputed waters.
But the Philippines’ victory over China in a challenge to latter’s claim to nearly all of the South China Sea in the UN-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague would not be on the summit agenda  because the ruling was already part of international law, according to Foreign Undersecretary Enrique Manalo.
Manalo told reporters in Malacañang on Thursday that the South China Sea dispute would be on the agenda of the Asean summit this year, and the focus would be on ensuring progress in work on a code of conduct for all the claimants.
Besides China and the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims in the South China Sea.
The Philippines tried to have  the arbitration ruling mentioned in a joint statement at last year’s Asean summit, but China allies Cambodia and Laos blocked the move, handing a diplomatic victory to Beijing.
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Asked whether the Philippines would ask China to stop building airstrips and docks on disputed reefs while the code of conduct is the works, Manalo said this was “the challenge we face in coming out with the framework.”
But the Philippines and other Asean members would continue to push for the peaceful resolution of the disputes, he added.
The Philippines’ playing host to the Asean summit comes amid warming ties between Manila and Beijing, with President Duterte reaching out to the Asian economic powerhouse for a mending of fences after the arbitration in The Hague.
Mr. Duterte has deferred bringing up the arbitration court ruling with China, though he has said he will insist on it during his term.
The government will formally launch the Philippine chairmanship of the 2017 Asean summit in Davao City on Jan. 15. This year also marks Asean’s 50th anniversary.
Hosting the event will cost the Philippines P15.5 billion.

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