Chinese tabloid warns US prez-elect Donald Trump

SHANGHAI: Global Times , a Chinese tabloid warned US President-elect Donald Trump that China would take “take revenge” if he defaulted on the one-China policy, only hours after Taiwan’s president made a controversial stopover in Houston.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met senior US Republican lawmakers during her stopover in Houston on Sunday en route to Central America, where she will visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. Tsai will stopover on Jan. 13 in San Francisco on her way back to Taiwan.

Beijing had asked Washington not to allow Tsai to enter the United States and that she not have any formal government meetings under the one China policy.

The Global Times does not equate with government policy, targeted Tsai in the editorial.It that the mainland would likely impose further economic, diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan, warning that “Tsai needs to face the consequences for every provocative step she takes”.