Trump is tanking decades-old policy toward Taiwan (opens in new tab)

President Trump seems determined to break U.S.-China and U.S.-Taiwan relations in as many historic ways as possible, but he persists in retaining the one policy most likely to result in cross-strait, regional and potentially global war. Within days of his first election in 2016, the president-elect did what had been unprecedented until then — he accepted a congratulatory telephone…