Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday questioned the relevance of continuing the "One-China" policy if Beijing refuses to make any concessions on trade, making it clear that the communist nation can't "dictate" him.
The US since 1979 has respected China's stance on Taiwan, which it sees as a breakaway province. But Trump said without concessions from China, he did not see why it should continue.
"I fully understand the One-China policy. But I don't know why we have to be bound by a One-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade," Trump told Fox News.
"We are being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them, with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn't be doing," he said.
"Frankly, they're not helping us at all with North Korea.
You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.
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