Trump draws rebuke after saying U.S. isn't bound by One China policy

"Many people might be surprised at how the new U.S. leader is truly a ‘businessman' through and through," the paper said. "But in the field of diplomacy, he is as ignorant as a child''

...

William Stanton, a career diplomat who served as de facto U.S. ambassador to Taiwan from 2009 to 2012 and now heads the Center for Asia Policy at Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University, said Trump's comment Sunday seemed to throw that idea into question by treating Taiwan's status as just an element of trade negotiations.

"Either he doesn't know what he is talking about, or he is endangering the status that Taiwan has always had in U.S. policy," he said.

"Having done a good thing, from my point of view, Trump has undone it," he said.

...

"But from the perspective of the Taiwanese people," [Wu Jieh-min, an associate research fellow at Taipei's Academia Sinica] said, "the legitimate principle should be that Taiwan should not be used as something for trade between the great powers."