tariffs, and claiming climate change is a hoax to steal jobs, and this is interpreted as a challenge to beijing where the leadership accepted the status quo in washington and they are blaming taiwan, calling it a petty act on their part, but at this stage they are saying only officially that no -- it will tolerate no country that has any official relations or thinks it can have official relations with taiwan. >> do you get a sense of the reaction coming out of beijing they are writing it off to a newcomers mistake that he may not have had a standing protocol or do you think it could have been a calculated message that donald trump is sending to the chinese it's not business as usual anymore when it comes to the issue of taiwan? >> reporter: taiwan is always a sensitive issue here. beijing has considered it a