Weeks before taking office, the incoming American president is riling Beijing with confrontation and online statements that appear to foreshadow a tougher foreign policy toward China. China's reaction to Trump's call with Tsai was relatively low-key given the sensitivity China places on Taiwan. Trump's reference in another tweet to Tsai as "the President of Taiwan" was sure to inflame China, which considers any reference to Taiwan having a president as a grave insult. Instead, China seemed to offer Trump a face-saving way out of an apparent blunder by blaming the Taiwanese. But it now faces an incoming president who deals in outspoken tweets, not communiques.

Source: ABC News December 05, 2016 05:10 UTC