President Tsai Ing-Wen called  President Elect Trump.   She can call any American she wants.  What is President Elect Trump supposed to do?  Snub her?   Really?  Better than Obama bowing before a a Muslim King in Saudi Arabia as President.  How is that for protocol?

A little history.  The United States up until 1972  had no diplomatic relations with China, under  Chairman Mao then.   President Nixon so anxious to make his  mark on history that he complied with China's demand for a visit to take place.  President Nixon had his Secretary of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger make the "Shanghai Gesture" in 1971 stating that Taiwan was  a  sovereign property  of  The Peoples Republic of China.    This was in violation of a formal treaty with Taiwan, a relative free market nation.  Shortly later in 1971, President Nixon must have told the US Ambassador to the UN not to veto the expulsion of Taiwan from the UN as a sovereign nation.   That was  a shameful incident in American history.