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China blasts ‘petty’ Taiwan call with Trump BEIJING — On Friday, President Xi Jinping told Henry Kissinger that he hoped for “stability” in U.S.-China ties under the new administration. Nobody told Donald Trump. The president-elect on Friday broke with four decades of diplomatic practice by talking on the phone to Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen, a breach of protocol that could disrupt U.S.-China ties before the inauguration. The 10 minute phone call is believed to be the first time that a U.S. president or president-elect and a Taiwanese leader have spoken since the late 1970s. [Trump speaks with Taiwanese president, a major break with decades of U.S. policy on China] It left Beijing fuming and China-watchers the world over wondering, “Is this a slip-up or a major shift?” The United States formally recognized the government in Beijing as representing China in 1978 and has pursued a “One China” policy since 1972, when then-President Richard M. Nixon visited China. But although the American government ended official relations with Taiwan in 1979, U.S. presidential administrations have maintained unofficial ties with Taiwan, which has become a thriving democracy in recent decades. Beijing remains hyper-sensitive to questions of Taiwan’s status and is apt to treat any change in protocol or policy as a provocation — even if it’s just a phone call. A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said Saturday that Beijing lodged an official complaint with the United States. Asked about the incident, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, called the call a “petty” move by Tsai. “The One China principle is the foundation for healthy development of Sino-U.S. relations. We don’t wish for anything to obstruct or ruin this foundation,” Wang said. But experts predicted surprise and anger as Beijing takes stock over the weekend. “This is a heavy blow,” said Zhu Feng, dean of the School of International Relations at Nanjing University. There are still many qustions surrounding the conversation between Trump and Tsai. The president-elect tweeted Friday that Tsai called him, rather than the other way around. Yet Tsai’s office later said the call was arranged in advance by both sides. Analysts are divided on whether it was a mixup between the two governments or a more significant signal about the type of foreign policy we can expect from the U.S. president-elect “My guess is that Trump himself doesn’t have clue,” said Bonnie Glaser, a senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “That he had no idea about Beijing’s neuralgia on Taiwan.” Susan Shirk, chair of the 21st Century China Program at the University of California at San Diego, said it was an “impulsive” move and a “bad sign for Trump foreign policy.” The call and Trump’s subsequent tweets raised fresh questions about who is advising the president-elect on Asia policy — and how. Paul Haenle, who was on the National Security Council staffs of former president George W. Bush and President Obama and is now director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, said the incident showed the importance of Trump taking daily intelligence briefings, consulting with experts at the State Department and Department of Defense and quickly assembling a China team. When it comes to China, past administrations took a “no surprises” approach, Haenle said. “The alternative — catching China by surprise on some of the most sensitive and longstanding areas of disagreement in our relationship — presents enormous risks and potential detriment for this consequential relationship.” That means damage control before Inaugration Day, experts said. The fact that Trump is the president-elect and not yet the president leaves Beijing some room to maenuver, said Shen Dingli, deputy dean of the Institute of International Affairs at Shanghai’s Fudan University. “If he were president of the United States now, this could lead to a breaking-off of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S.” “Having this having mishap occur before he is president is better than having it occur after he is president,” said Glaser of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Privately, I expect Beijing to find a way to give him an education on Taiwan.” Honesty is the best policy. |
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You are welcome, pinkcrystal. I just can't help myself to correct your typing mistakes. You are typing correctly now. I wish the best for your daughter in California. California has the best weather. Berkley is an expensive area. The 1st yr she can live in dormitory but from 2nd yr on, she needs to move out to rent an apartment (share room with roommate). Tell your daughter to fit in the American lifestyle (to be assimilated), overcome the language barrier and pressure from the studying. I have heard many Chinese students who couldn't overcome the pressure and committed suicide. You should encourage her and communicate with your daughter through emails. I communicate with my daughter by texting because she has too many different email addresses. I think WebChat is very popular among Chinese people. Best of luck in your daughter's academic studying in California. Honesty is the best policy.
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pinkcrystal, Let me correct your English typing. There is no space in between a sentence and punctuation (e.g. period, comma, question mark, ....) You have typed every sentence and space then a punctuation. When I went to China in 2008, there was a Chinese woman in Beijing who asked my email address so that she can practice her English grammar and vocabularies. I told her the same mistake you did. She typed a sentence and then a space and then a punctuation (period). No space for punctuation, type the punctuation immediately after a sentence. I mean well to correct you. Look all my English typing, every punctuation followed immediately for a sentence. Honesty is the best policy.
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pinkcrystal: My daughter paid ZERO dollar for undergraduate pre-med program (2 bachelor degrees) because she got 3 scholarships and made money of $12,000 per year for 4 years. She got full scholarship (that mean zero dollar for tuition) from any UC because she got perfect scores of 1600 of SAT I and SAT II before her high school graduation, she got a perfect score for AP test too. She was born and raised in USA. Her boyfriend (now fiance) paid for $70,000 tuition x 4 yrs to get a bachelor degree in Psychology. My daughter tutored him and she got two degrees for 5 yrs (all free tuition). She saved me lots of money for her 2 bachelor degrees and earned money from US Presidential and US Merit scholarship in combine of $12,000 per year for 4 yrs. I said $70,000 that is for the regular students who didn't get UC scholarship or other scholarship. In USA, needed to pay $70,000 as US citizens. I think it will be double for foreign students (non-citizen or not Californians). I am NOT sure. How much did you pay for the tuition for your daughter UC Berkeley tuition? What is your daughter's major? Medical students are the top paid tuition. My daughter will be graduated next year for her 4 yrs post-graduate doctoral program. She is 28 y/o now. It is a long journey to be a MD. She has spent 9 yrs since her high school graduation. I admire her perseverance and intelligence. Honesty is the best policy.
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pinkcrystal: One thing I have to mention. To be a MD is not only financial but also must NOT afraid of blood or dead people body. My daughter came back for Thanksgiving and I asked her "Have you seen the surgery?". She answered "Yes, of course, the professors cut open the dead people's body to show us". My son stopped us and said "Mom, don't talk about these things, I am having dinner now." My son is afraid of seeing blood, so he can't be MD or Dentist. He is studying physics to be a physicist. He tried to apply for pharmacy school but failed. Not everyone can be a MD. My daughter said she paid huge tuition to work at hospital for doctors, not the other way around (not get paid for the work she has done). Well, she needs to gain experiences. MD is NOT just study from books, but also needs every detail experiences. I hope your daughter needs to take this into her consideration to be a MD. Honesty is the best policy.
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To be a MD is a long journey. First she needs to have "Pre-Med program" that is at least on Bachelor degree in medical related (my daughter got 2 degrees, i.e. Psychology and Neurobiology). The tuition is above $70,000 a yr. She got UC full tuition , so I didn't pay for any tuition for her 2 degrees. Because she got perfect scores of 1600 on both SAT I & II, she received US Presidential scholarship and US Merit scholarship for her undergraduate (Bachelor for 4 yrs), she made money $12,000 per year for 4 yrs. I let her keep that money and I paid her dormitory and rent. She saved me lots of money. (BTW, she was in UCI for 5 yrs to get good grades for 2 degrees and tuition-free) After she got 2 degrees, she applied "post-graduated doctoral program for 12 medical school. Although she has had straight A in her pre-med, but for "post-graduated MD" they need to see her parents income and if her parents had graduated from top raked medical school. Of course, Harvard and Stanford declined her application. She got into a "post-graduated MD" medical school out of California because UC can charge higher tuition for out-of-states students and foreign students. The tuition is $100,000 per year, my daughter applied student loan from Dept of Education and couple months later, her school gave her scholarship of $15,000 and she paid back student loan and carry $85,000 loan each year and pay "interest only" each month. So, she has $85,000 x 4 = $340,000 loan now. She will be graduated in June 2017. I will attend her graduation next year. I asked her where will she has her "Residency and internship", she said it is depended on her professors, not her choice, so she doesn't know the hospital location. She has engaged to her "high-school sweetheart" in March of this year. They have been together for 12 yrs. Her fiance is study to be a PA (Physician Assistant) in different state for 2 yrs. To be a MD, parents need to be very rich. They need to pay $70,000 per yr for at least 4 yrs plus $100,000 per yr for another 4 yrs for tuition alone in total of $680,000, let alone the rent and living expenses and books. She carry a $340.000 student loan and need to be paid back when she has income. To be a MD needs 1 million at least. It is very expensive. To be a pharmacist needs $70,000 for 8 yrs = $560,000. If she wants to be a specialist, she needs 2 or 3 yrs more to study and practice to become a specialist. I prefer her to be an anesthesiologist that require 3 more yrs of training. I let her know, but she will or will NOT to be anesthesiologist is her decision. For now, she is in love with her fiance and I think they will get married after her graduation. I probably need to sell some properties to help her to pay back student loan. Honesty is the best policy.
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Against all odds, Trump won the election Trump 他以黑馬的姿態最後勝出。（跌破專家的眼鏡。） Many people were surprised if not shocked. Hillary won "Popular votes", but Trump won "Electoral votes". Hillary has 20,000 more votes than Trump, but lose on electoral votes. It is the 2nd time that Democrat lost election because "Electoral votes". The last time was Al Gore. When the stars align for Trump = When an unexpected and nearly impossible event takes place. Usually due to pure luck or the divine intervention of God. I can't agree with Trump for his peculiar character, bully language, aggressive attitude, womanizing, mocked Blacks, Mexicans, Muslim, women, promoted "2nd Amendment" for gun ownership, .... There are too many to list here. However, we have to accept his victory, because this is democracy. Honesty is the best policy.
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I did read your comment, but I was busy to respond yesterday, so I only answered one of the two. First of all, I congratulate your daughters came to USA to study at UC Berkley. My daughter got admission from all UC including UC Berkley for her pre-med program, but her boyfriend (now fiance) got UCI (Irvine), so she attended UCI instead. Besides, UCI is closer to home and she is younger than other students because she has skipped one grade. She got two bachelor degrees (psychology and neurobiology) from UCI without paying a cent for tuition because all UC gave her "full scholarship" for all 4 yrs. She also made money $12,000 per year from US Presidential scholarship from White House and US Merit scholarship from Dept of Education for all 4 yrs. She is attending "post-graduated doctoral program" out of California and will be graduated in June of 2017. She will need to work as "Residency and Intern" as physician afterwards. It is a very long journey to become a MD. Her fiance is studying to be a PA (Physician Assistant). Yes, I do know China has improved tremendously for the past two decades. I do know that Chinese can travel abroad to other countries since the "tourist visa" opened in Sept of 2008. I was in China in May 2008 and asked the tour guide and he told me this information. I have lived in USA for 36.5 yrs, there were only Taiwanese came to USA in 1980, but now I saw so many Chinese from China especially Rowland Hts that has had a "月子中心" that been closed down by US Immigration (I posted a blog about this news before). I saw so many pregnant women on the streets of my town. They wanted to give birth of "American citizens", they only lived here for 2 or 3 months and once got her kid's US citizenship, they fly back to China. It was a bizarre situation in Rowland Hts, California for few years. I also know "one child policy" is over for a year ago. No more penalty for having 2nd child. Few years ago, I volunteered to translate for an illegal Chinese woman escaped from Quan-Dong (she has 2 daughters) at an Immigration office. I even wanted her to live in my house for free, but the attorney and my mom told me "don't" because if her "snake-head" found out she hided in my house, I could get into big trouble (revenge). In USA, we have bipartisan policy. We can criticize government, leader, change legislation, presidential election. However, in China, you only have one party that is Communist, you don't have presidential election, you don't own land when purchase property. Your government control people, so you can't have Google including Google search, Google Earth and YouTube video, .... which are very educational. I am sorry Chinese people have been controlled by their government. The people are nice but the government is the one to be blamed. Yes, I know your government has improved in many area but the basic "communist" policy is still there. Trump won the election, Americans wanted "change". It has been every 8 yrs change another party to be presidents since Bill Clinton (Democrat), George W. Bush (Republican), Obama (Democrat), now president-elect Donald Trump (Republican). I know Trump will be at least 4 yrs, if he can't re-elect for another 4 yrs term. I originally wanted to vote for Joe Biden but he didn't enter the election. I voted for Hillary because I agree with "Democratic party policy" e.g. Green Environment, Clean Energy, Global Warming, .... that are opposite to Republican's policy. I dislike Trump for his peculiar behavior, aggressive attitude, womanizing, ... However, once election is over, we have to follow the law and admit he is the president. That is "Democracy". Miss Tsai grabbed the good timing opportunity to call Trump to congratulate him won the election because she knows Taiwan needs a "lift". China doesn't need to be overreacted over a phone call. China is too sensitive. Honesty is the best policy.
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I appreciate your comments on my blogs as an old friend. Thank you. That proved you are NOT a "Silent Lambs", you dare to speak out. That needs courage. Special thanks for you to say "politics between those two countries like China and Taiwan". That you know Taiwan is a separated country not one of China's province. I greatly appreciate this comment. Thank you very much. Many thanks. Honesty is the best policy.
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Your hypothesis of " If there were a war between USA and Taiwan , I wonder which side you would stand in" is absolutely absurd and ridiculous. Let me explain to you why there won't have a war in between Taiwan and USA. 1. Taiwanese are very friendly people and small island. There is no reason that Taiwan will attack US or vice versa. 2. USA know that Taiwan is a democracy exactly same as USA. China is a communist country which is against the USA policy and most of the freedom countries. 3. China is the aggressor who will attack Taiwan, Not USA. China has pushed Taiwan to the corner, to isolate Taiwan from the rest of the world. 4. Although USA don't have diplomatic relationship with Taiwan for 37 years, but USA still sell lots of "defensive weapons" to Taiwan. There are "trades" that Taiwan purchase weapons from USA. 5. We all know China's population is huge, so USA wants to sell Boeing airplanes, the military ships, weapons to China and make profits. USA use China's cheaper labor (no longer much cheaper nowadays) to bring down the cost. That is the reason USA established diplomatic relationship with China in the winter of 1979. 6 Taiwan is NOT a terrorist country, USA won't attack Taiwan. It is China will attack Taiwan. Hope I make my points clear to you. There won't be a war in between USA and Taiwan. No way !! Honesty is the best policy.
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Let me explain this way to make you understand why Taiwan and China can't unify. For example: East Germany vs. West Germany, North Korea vs South Korea, and North Vietnam vs. South Vietnam as well as China vs. Taiwan. The same conflicts in those countries are one side is communist, one side is democracy. Even the wall in between East and West Germany has been crash down, but the two sides of people still couldn't get along. Of course, North Korea is the enemy of South Korea that is very obvious. North Vietnam is Communist country but attacked South Vietnam, so USA sent thousands of soldiers and airplanes to bomb North Vietnam. Do you think South Vietnamese can get along with North Vietnamese? No, the war in 1975 for many years, but no more war, still they can't unify as one. So, you should know why Taiwanese want to be alone. However, people in China they have been brainwashed by their government that Taiwan is just one of their province. Ask every Taiwanese, nobody wants to unify with China. It is just we are too small and can't say out loud. How can a democratic people get along with communists??? It is impossible. We have different thoughts, idea, opinions, .... separated 67 years. Everything is different in 67 years. Taiwanese have used to have FREEDOM of speech, have presidential election, freedom of go travel abroad, freedom of learning everything. I went to Taiwan for 32 days in 2011 and I use Google to get news and information just the same I am in USA. In Taiwan we don't have "one child policy". I want "Peace on Earth". I disgust with "weapon attack", or threaten to bomb Taiwan, so I emigrated to USA and continue to pursue my goal. We all have one life and one journey that no return. Why can't I choose my own way?? At least, I can say "I did it my way". When Donald Trump said he promotes "2nd Amendment" gun owners, I got scared and want to flee to Canada. But now I will wait and see how Trump will lead USA. USA military has a rule with homosexual "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Taiwan has the same rule "Don't ask, we don't tell that we like to be independent". Just leave us alone. USA don't like communists, so Americans are on West Germany, South Korea, and South Vietnam sides, but why Americans can't be on Taiwanese side also??? Why?? Because we are too small island. Taiwanese president, Tsai proactively called Mr. Trump with confident and polite to congratulate Trump won the election and Trump also congratulated Miss Tsai won the election in January 2016. What's wrong with that?? Nothing wrong. But China got nervous and rebuttal about this phone call is against "one China policy". Why U.S. government needs to be "double standards"?? Honesty is the best policy.
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I dislike Trump for his peculiar personality, behavior, language, character, womanizing, mocked many people, .... (please refer to my other blogs). I voted for Hillary Clinton. However, we are in a democratic country, we have to accept the election result. Against all odds, when stars align for Trump, Americans forgive him and he won the election. Taiwan is a small island and small population in comparison to China. Do you know Chiang, Kai-Shek was represent for China during World War II and Taiwan is one of the four country in U.N. 聯合國 that had "veto vote"?? When your country was suffered in Cultural Revolution, Taiwan was the member of 聯合國 for many years until 1976 or 1979. However, Americans saw that your country has huge population and just started to recover from Cultural Revolution, so Americans saw the opportunity to have "trade" with China even they didn't like communist system. It was because of MONEY, economy to sell merchandise to China. Taiwan is too small. They abandoned small country and went on with big country. China government has "narrow-mind" to push Taiwan to the corner, to isolate from the rest of the countries which is NOT kindhearted. Why can your country just leave us alone?? Your country wants to kill 23 million of Taiwanese??? I see nothing wrong that Trump to accept Taiwanese president Tsai's congratulatory phone call. This is the first time I agree with Donald Trump and the House Speaker, Paul Ryan. There is nothing wrong to take phone call from president Tsai in Taiwan. Chinese should travel outside to see the world. (I know the tourist visa started Sept of 2008 after Olympics closed) Don't be "a frog siting in the bottom of a well and looking to the sky that is so limited". I know most of the bloggers are NOT subscribers and couldn't read my profile, but I have traveled to some countries. Honesty is the best policy.
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Of course, President Tsai speaks English fluently without a translator. Her highest education is Ph.D. London School of Economics; LLM, Cornell University, Cornell Law School, University of London. In Taiwan, the government has NEVER prohibited to learn English. Mrs. Chiang Soong May-Ling 宋美齡(President Chiang's wife) was graduated from Wellesley College in USA and had a famous speech in front of U.S. House of Representative on Feb 18th, 1943. (Please Google the video) Oh, I forgot you don't have Google in China that will limit your news, information and knowledge from the rest of the world. I feel so sorry about Chinese people in China because your government. I watch U.S. movies at theater since I was 5 y/o. I have listened many English songs. We have had movies, TV programs from USA and England, no ban on learning English. My ancestors have moved to Taiwan for 400 years. Chiang, Kai-Shek retreated to Taiwan from China in 1949 (before I was born). It has been 67 years that Taiwan has separated from China. We have our own flag, national anthem, constitution, law orders, .... those are very different from your country. I was born and raised in Taiwan for 24 yrs. I was graduated from a medical university in Taiwan and passed pharmacist license exam in Taiwan. I have emigrated to USA since 1980 in the fear of China government weapon threaten (36 & 1/2 yrs) which is longer than in Taiwan. I also went to USC (Univ. of Southern Calif.) school of Pharmacy and passed license exam and became California licensed pharmacist since 1987. I can speak, write, understand English from Americans, TV, internet, movies. .... Of course, President Tsai, Ing-Wen (she is 1 year younger than me) speaks English with Trump. Taiwanese can speak better English better than Chinese people in China in general because we have NEVER had "Cultural Revolution" for 10 yrs and prohibited to learn English. We have freedom to learn anything, to go abroad to any country. My aunt family moved to USA since I was 10 y/o. My mom applied her "Green Card" through her younger sister. My mom came to USA to have a vacation tour with her sister twice. My mom found a job in 1978 after she had her Green Card, she applied to support me to come to USA just in time that Jimmy Carter abandoned Taiwan diplomatic relation and established diplomatic relation with China. I came to USA with approval of immigration and U.S. Custom said to me "Welcome to USA" and stamped a Green Card number for me and told me how to apply real Green Card with that number and how to apply Social Security number and he said "you are ready to apply any job". My first job was a loan secretary in a bank because I can type documents. I feel sorry that Chinese people unfair treatment under their government 50 yrs ago for 10 yrs long. Your people became "silent lambs", the "iron curtain" closed down all the outside news and information. While you have had "Cultural Revolution", the world was continue to progress. I understand your country has improved tremendously for the past 10 - 15 years, your people can learn English and internet. However, your country has had wasted too many years to catch up with the rest of the world. I sympathize your people. In Taiwan, we call China, "their country", we call Taiwan "my country". You just don't know how huge differences in between China and Taiwan after separation of 67 years, not mention my ancestors for 400 yrs. So sad about your country that still a communist country. In Taiwan we are democratic country and we can vote for leader, presidential election exactly the same system as USA. We have 3 political parties. We have freedom of speech, we can criticize Taiwanese government if they did anything wrong. That is the difference. I have been to China for a vacation trip (Beijing, Hang-Zhou, Su-Zhou, and Shanghai for 8 days/ 6 nights in May of 2008 (3 months before summer Olympics in China). I asked Chinese people questions in Mandarin, but they didn't dare to answer my questions. I knew they are afraid that I would report them. No, I didn't know anyone in China. I went to China from USA with a travel agency. I was lucky to born in Taiwan and I am proud to be a Taiwanese-American. If China wants to unify Taiwan, they should be very kind to Taiwanese not by military force or threaten. No matter you agree with me or not, I speak from my mind. I am a highly educated person. Honesty is the best policy.
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Washington (AFP) - Amid an outpouring of condemnation over President-elect Donald Trump's telephone conversation with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, some prominent US conservatives are commending his decision to take her call. Trump's conversation with Tsai on Friday broke decades of US diplomatic policy, risking a serious rift with China by calling into question one of Beijing's self-described "core interests" -- the "One China" policy to which then-president Richard Nixon agreed in 1978. No US president or president-elect has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since then. Some US conservatives however see no evil in the Friday call. "I would much rather have Donald Trump talking to President Tsai than to Cuba's Raul Castro or Iran's Hasan Rouhani," Texas Senator Ted Cruz -- Trump's main challenger and a fierce critic during this year's Republican primary race -- tweeted on Saturday. "This is an improvement." President Barack Obama has spoken with Rouhani by phone, and met Castro on a trip to Cuba. Ari Fleischer, White House spokesman under former president George W. Bush, didn't think that accepting the call was a bad idea. "China has been increasingly aggressive with us because they know we won't do anything meaningful about it," Fleischer tweeted. "I don't mind Trump pushing back." China regards self-ruling Taiwan as part of its own territory awaiting reunification under Beijing's rule, and any US move implying support for independence -- even calling Tsai "president," as Trump did in a tweet announcing the call -- prompts grave offense in China. - Foreign policy pivot? - But some critics thought that Trump had crossed a dangerous line. "What has happened in the last 48 hours is not a shift. These are major pivots in foreign policy w/out any plan. That's how wars start," tweeted Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. Senior Trump aide Kellyanne Conway brushed aside the criticism, insisting that the call did not necessarily indicate a change of policy. "Senator Murphy's tweet is pretty incendiary," she told CNN late Friday. "This is how wars are starting and it is a major policy shift because you get a phone call? That is pretty negative." Asked whether Trump's decision to take Tsai's call was the result of a mistake by an inexperienced staff, she said the real estate billionaire was fully aware of the implications. Trump's other defenders included Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton. "I commend President-elect Trump for his conversation with President Tsai Ing-wen, which reaffirms our commitment to the only democracy on Chinese soil," he said in a statement. "Obama breaks w/decades of US policy on Cuba & gets endless fawning coverage," the conservative journalist Stephen Hayes tweeted. "Trump breaks w/US policy by phoning Taiwan & he's reckless?" - Surprise Palin criticism - Trump received criticism on another matter from an unexpected source on Friday: the outspoken former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who strongly supported him during his campaign. A favorite of the powerful far-right Tea Party movement, Palin condemned Trump's deal with the Carrier air conditioner company this week to keep 1,100 jobs in Indiana instead of shipping hundreds to Mexico, in return for what the company said would be a $7 million tax-break package from the state. "When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent," Palin wrote on the website Young Conservatives. "We support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail." Trump's transition team is believed to be considering Palin, a former Republican candidate for vice president, for a cabinet position. During his presidential campaign, the Republican billionaire repeatedly threatened to slap tariffs on firms that decamped for Mexico, Asia and other regions with cheaper labor costs. On Friday, Trump singled out another industrial company, tweeting, "Rexnord of Indiana is moving to Mexico and rather viciously firing all of its 300 workers. This is happening all over our country. No more!" Honesty is the best policy.
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