china. there had been more or less a status quo with the main land over the last 15 years, sort of a slow absorption of taiwan back in the fold, the renegade province finally having better relations with the main land. but also let's understand that mr. trump during this campaign had singled out china because of the failure of the pivot by the obama administration to china. so we had a lot of challenges, trade currency, trade and currency fluctuation, and manipulation charges. building islands, military outposts on the south china sea, failure to support efforts to try to rein in north korea's nuclear program. a heavy dose of concerns that any administration should have with china. >> john huntsman, former ambassador to china, he had this take on the phone call. take a listen. >> there is a little too much hyperventilating about this one. we ought to be giving them a