caught off guard by this? reporter: well, i don t necessarily think they were caught off guard, given the fact that president-elect trump had that it phone call with the taiwan president wen but thought there could be controversy stirred up in the u.s./china relationship given what we ve seen over the last week or so. did hear strong words from a spokesperson at the regular daily briefing here node beijing, perhaps not surprising, strong words from them giving anything that has to do with taiwan and any perceived threats to the one china policy is very, very tensetive to china s government and let s hear a lot of what that spokesperson had to say. translator: adhering to the one china principle is the political bedrock to the development of u.s./china relations. it it is compromised or destructed, the bilateral relationship as well as