In accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, US President-Elect Donald Trump has uprooted 37 years of US-China diplomatic protocol. Why was the call so controversial and what does it mean for relations between the US, China and Taiwan going forward? Elina Noor, Director of Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, explains.

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