Trump risks provoking China's ire with planned call with Taiwan leader

Trump risks provoking China's ire with planned call with Taiwan leader

US President ​Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would speak with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for a US leader that could roil US relations with China. US and Taiwanese presidents have not spoken directly since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from ​Taipei in 1979. France 24's correspondent in Taiwan Jan Camenzind Broomby takes a look at how likely it is the call will go ahead and what the two leaders might discuss.

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