Comment: What is weird about Trump is that he proposed this as a mere bargaining chip. He does not give a damn about Taiwan per se. He is not doing this on some principle, for example the right of self-determination or whatever you want to concoct.

No, it is simply like a business deal in his brain. Imagine if the Chinese would threaten to support "La Reconquista" or separatism in California in the hope of extracting a better deal with the USA on say canola oil? 

After the vote in California, perhaps the Chinese could donate a few billions to separatists in California..... 

I am happy that the Americans are waking up against the criminal elites like Clinton, it is too bad that the USA did not have a Marine Le Pen instead of that buffoon.