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Welcome back to "cnn newsroom." were learning more now about the bizarre break from diplomatic protocol when u.s. president-elect donald trump spoke directly with the leader of taiwan. fridays phone call the first one-on-one contact since 1979 sent shockwaves through the diplomatic world. trump said the taiwan president called him. taiwan said both sides agreed to the call beforehand. cnns alexander field joins us now from beijing. a little bit of a -- not too much clarity on how this came about...

Hed be remembered is there would be no parks or monuments or streets named after him, very different in how other strong men in the region and around the world wanted to be remembered with massive memorials in their honor. fidel castro has always cultivated a slightly different personality. he wanted people to know his speeches, his school of thought to -- even though he was the central figure, you do not see statues in his honor or posters or billboards with his face on it. at least not very ma...

That fidel hnkdied that fidel was still with him. some of the won i spoke to said this was more than just losing a leader. this felt like losing a father or grandfather. i want to read you a little piece, i was translating this morning what was on that plaque, his definition. and he said revolution is unity, it is independence, it is fighting for our dreams of justice for cuba and the world. it is the basis of our patriotism and our socialism. alex? >> morgan, thank you very much for that live r...

Position of -- to have the foresight of information at his fingertips and go through the possible consequences of what appear to be potentially very big shifts in u.s. foreign policy. we going to move from a situation where america is trying to manage chinas rise to a more confrontational policy as gordon was saying. that needs to be something thats discussed through a wider prism of foreign policy thought than just a conversation with a president elect on the telephone. >> gordon, a lot of thes...

Aggressive towards the united states. you saw the reactions from the chinese foreign ministry which were fairly measured. they suggested it was a ruse by taiwan to get the u.s. president in trouble. i think thats a sign right now theyre not committed to a course of action that would be aggressively responding to this call with the president elect and the president of taiwan. theyre just waiting to see how it actually sort of plays out once president trump, once his whole government is in shape. ...

General flynn is not anyone else would put. if you have labor secretary, education secretary, that might have been someone youd see in another republican administration thats one thing. its not clear ultimately whether they will be the ones driving the train. given the improvisational matter in all the phone calls and the way theyve unfolded, youre going to see a lot of direction out of the white house. if not necessarily a lot of kind of guided, you know, kind of a clear map and pathway, especi...

Changed major foreign policy with different countries. franklin vo franklin roosevelt recognized the soviet union. richard nixon famously opened the door to china, stunned the world. >> but jeff nobody did it as president elect. this is ridiculous. >> ronald reagan did the same in his very first press conference with in terms of the soviet union. and of course president obama -- >> discuss it with somebody first and met -- were talking about 40 years of diplomacy. >> i how -- >> hold on. but may...

Donald trump doesnt know diplomacy. he doesnt understand the world. and this sort of phone call is mind boggling. because anybody that had a smidgeon -- the two of us. if we were president elect we would know that there is a long-term one china policy. we would not accept this kind of call. >> but so what? >> and hold on jeff. and we would at least call up the state departments, the experts and say how to do we handle this? and number two, in case you didnt know, donald trump is president elect ...

Foreign policy without any plan. thats how wars start. steven, do you think it really is that series, thats how wars start? i mean, it is, after all, just a phone call. >> thats true. but i think what this does, martin, is increase pressure on donald trump to get through that process of naming a secretary of state and senior foreign policy advisors around him pretty quickly. its true that elections have consequences. and the president elect soon to be the president will have wide latitude of dec...