KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — The official response from Xi Jinping’s communist China to President-elect Trump’s victory was formulaic.
“Our coverage in the direction of the U.S. is constant,” overseas ministry spokesperson Mao Ning instructed reporters Wednesday afternoon. “We are going to proceed to view and deal with China-U.S. relations in accordance with the rules of mutual respect, peaceable co-existence and win-win cooperation.”
Nationwide Taiwan College Division of Philosophy professor Yuan Juzheng returned to Taiwan from a visit to China Monday, the place, he famous, practically everybody he met with needed to speak in regards to the U.S. election. He instructed Fox Information Digital a Trump win is a “worst-case situation” for Beijing. China consultants, in addition to Chinese language residents on-line, imagine the subsequent 4 years beneath President-elect Trump will nearly definitely worsen already strained ties.
In the course of the marketing campaign, Trump made it abundantly clear he would undertake a tariff-based strategy to commerce with China. Professor Yuan defined that China had “not been ready psychologically” when, round 2018, President Trump hit big Chinese language corporations akin to Huawei with tariffs.
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China’s President Xi Jinping talking in Beijing and President-elect Donald Trump campaigning in North Carolina (Getty Photos)
However this time round, Yuan says, China is aware of how a lot such insurance policies will damage, and they’re going to come at a time when China’s home financial system is just not doing properly.
“Three key points will proceed to dominate the U.S.-China relationship. They’re the three T’s — commerce, expertise and Taiwan,” Zhiqun Zhu, a professor of political science and worldwide relations at Bucknell College, instructed Fox Information Digital a couple of hours earlier than Trump’s beautiful triumph grew to become official.
On Wednesday, Taiwan President William Lai wrote on X, “Honest congratulations to President-elect @realDonaldTrump in your victory. I’m assured that the longstanding # Taiwan – #US partnership, constructed on shared values & pursuits, will proceed to function a cornerstone for regional stability & result in better prosperity for us all.”
Taiwanese Vice President Bi-khim Hsiao, additionally through X, added, “I be a part of President Lai in providing my congratulations to President Trump, VP-elect Vance, and the American folks. Trying ahead constructing a powerful Taiwan-US partnership, for freedom, peace, and financial prosperity.”
The Taiwanese public has had blended views in regards to the U.S. election. Some right here discover Trump’s usually brash and blunt character unappealing. One current ballot confirmed over 50% of the Taiwanese most popular Harris to Trump. Nevertheless, many Taiwanese have additionally mentioned they considered Trump as probably “higher for Taiwan,” largely as a result of an expectation that he’ll take a tough line on China. That expectation is shared on the opposite facet of the Taiwan Strait.
Donald Trump arrives at an election evening watch occasion on the Palm Seaside Conference Middle Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Seaside, Fla. (Evan Vucci/AP)
Ross Darrell Feingold, a Taipei-based lawyer and commentator on native and regional politics, is amongst a small group of Individuals dwelling in Taiwan who’re energetic on TouTiao, a Chinese language info platform owned by ByteDance, the father or mother firm of TikTok. With over 150 million every day customers, TouTiao could possibly be likened to a hybrid of Fb and X.
On the Sunday earlier than the U.S. election, Feingold posted a question on TouTiao that was lastly allowed to be printed after some rewording as a result of China’s strict web controls.
“As a Chinese language individual, do you assume Trump or Kamala Harris can be extra dangerous to China-US relations?” he wrote.
A Hong Kong police honor guard raises China and Hong Kong flags throughout a ceremony in celebration of the seventy fifth Nationwide Day of the Folks’s Republic of China in Hong Kong Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Picture/Chan Lengthy Hei)
Greater than 30,000 folks considered the query, and roughly 5,500 offered a wide range of solutions that included some direct help for Democratic nominee Harris, whom Chinese language netizens have given the nickname “Ha Ha Sister,” a reference to the vp’s exuberant laughter.
Feingold, nonetheless, famous the close to unanimity in Chinese language netizens’ feedback that the U.S. is hostile towards China, and so they do not want to see China rise to its rightful place as a world energy.
“Primarily based on the feedback I acquired on TouTiao, the general public in China appears to assume the U.S. — led by a frontrunner from both occasion — would search to restrain China’s development,” Feingold instructed Fox Information Digital.
He added that it may be troublesome to find out whether or not web feedback replicate real private opinions or are merely the parroting of concepts from China’s state-run media. General, Feingold says, the Chinese language public has begun to take American insurance policies personally, decoding them as being directed at extraordinary Chinese language folks moderately than critiques of the governing Chinese Communist Party.
Honor guards increase a Taiwanese flag on the Presidential Palace forward of the Nationwide Day celebration ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Picture)
Zhu, the Bucknell professor, laid it out starkly in feedback to Fox Information Digital, saying, “Whereas over 80% of Individuals surveyed view China negatively now, the constructive Chinese language views of America have additionally dropped. … What’s totally different now than a couple of years in the past is that many Chinese language, together with liberals in China, have turn into extra crucial of the US … and imagine the U.S. is just not welcoming Chinese language college students, vacationers and businesspeople.”
Zhu famous that some states akin to Florida have lower nearly all cultural and academic exchanges with Beijing.
Japan, which additionally has a tense relationship with China, provided its congratulations to Trump Wednesday. Barron’s quoted Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as saying he hoped the nations’ alliance would transfer “to new heights” throughout Trump’s second time period.
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On this photograph offered by the North Korean authorities, North Korean chief Kim Jong Un, left, supervises artillery firing drills in North Korea March 7, 2024. (Korean Central Information Company/Korea Information Service through AP)
In a submit on X, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol each congratulated and praised Trump, writing, “Underneath your robust management, the way forward for the ROK [Republic of Korea]-U.S. alliance and America will shine brighter. Sit up for working carefully with you.”
And regardless of the views of some that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un would welcome the return of Trump to the White Home, there was no rapid official remark from the so-called “Hermit Kingdom.” However North Korea “fired a number of short-range ballistic missiles towards its japanese sea” hours earlier than the U.S. election on Tuesday.
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