China officially 'doesn't care' about Trump win; unofficially, experts say Beijing is rattled

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — The official effect from Xi Jinping's communist China to President-elect Trump's triumph was formulaic.

"Our argumentation towards the U.S. is consistent," overseas ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters Wednesday afternoon. "We volition proceed to presumption and grip China-U.S. relations successful accordance with the principles of communal respect, peaceful co-existence and win-win cooperation." 

National Taiwan University Department of Philosophy prof Yuan Juzheng returned to Taiwan from a travel to China Monday, where, helium noted, astir everyone helium met with wanted to speech astir the U.S. election. He told Fox News Digital a Trump triumph is simply a "worst-case scenario" for Beijing. China experts, arsenic good arsenic Chinese citizens online, judge the adjacent 4 years nether President-elect Trump will astir surely worsen already strained ties.

During the campaign, Trump made it abundantly wide helium would follow a tariff-based attack to commercialized with China. Professor Yuan explained that China had "not been prepared psychologically" when, astir 2018, President Trump deed immense Chinese companies specified arsenic Huawei with tariffs.

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China's President Xi Jinping speaking successful Beijing and President-elect Donald Trump campaigning successful North Carolina (Getty Images)

But this clip around, Yuan says, China knows however overmuch specified policies volition hurt, and they volition travel astatine a clip erstwhile China’s home system is not doing well. 

"Three cardinal issues volition proceed to predominate the U.S.-China relationship. They are the 3 T’s — trade, exertion and Taiwan," Zhiqun Zhu, a prof of governmental subject and planetary relations astatine Bucknell University, told Fox News Digital a fewer hours earlier Trump’s stunning triumph became official. 

On Wednesday, Taiwan President William Lai wrote connected X, "Sincere congratulations to President-elect @realDonaldTrump on your victory. I’m assured that the longstanding # Taiwan - #US partnership, built connected shared values & interests, volition proceed to service arsenic a cornerstone for determination stableness & pb to greater prosperity for america all." 

Taiwanese Vice President Bi-khim Hsiao, besides via X, added, "I articulation President Lai successful offering my congratulations to President Trump, VP-elect Vance, and the American people. Looking guardant gathering a beardown Taiwan-US partnership, for freedom, peace, and economical prosperity."

The Taiwanese nationalist has had mixed views astir the U.S. election. Some present find Trump’s often brash and blunt property unappealing. One caller poll showed implicit 50% of the Taiwanese preferred Harris to Trump. However, galore Taiwanese person besides said they viewed Trump arsenic perchance "better for Taiwan," mostly owed to an anticipation that helium volition instrumentality a hard enactment connected China. That anticipation is shared connected the different broadside of the Taiwan Strait. 

Donald Trump arrives astatine an predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, successful West Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Ross Darrell Feingold, a Taipei-based lawyer and commentator connected section and determination politics, is among a tiny radical of Americans surviving successful Taiwan who are progressive connected TouTiao, a Chinese accusation level owned by ByteDance, the genitor institution of TikTok. With implicit 150 cardinal regular users, TouTiao could beryllium likened to a hybrid of Facebook and X. 

On the Sunday earlier the U.S. election, Feingold posted a question connected TouTiao that was yet allowed to beryllium published aft immoderate rewording owed to China’s strict net controls. 

"As a Chinese person, bash you deliberation Trump oregon Kamala Harris volition beryllium much harmful to China-US relations?" helium wrote.

ENCIRCLING TAIWAN WAS A SMOKESCREEN FOR CHINA'S REAL GOAL OF CONVINCING US NOT TO INTERVENE, EXPERT SAYS

A Hong Kong constabulary grant defender raises China and Hong Kong flags during a ceremonial successful solemnisation of the 75th National Day of the People's Republic of China successful Hong Kong Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

More than 30,000 radical viewed the question, and astir 5,500 provided a assortment of answers that included immoderate nonstop enactment for Democratic nominee Harris, whom Chinese netizens person fixed the nickname "Ha Ha Sister," a notation to the vice president’s exuberant laughter. 

Feingold, however, noted the adjacent unanimity successful Chinese netizens’ comments that the U.S. is hostile toward China, and they don't privation to spot China emergence to its rightful spot arsenic a planetary power. 

"Based connected the comments I received connected TouTiao, the nationalist successful China seems to deliberation the U.S. — led by a person from either enactment — would question to restrain China’s growth," Feingold told Fox News Digital. 

He added that it tin beryllium hard to find whether net comments bespeak genuine idiosyncratic opinions oregon are simply the parroting of ideas from China’s state-run media. Overall, Feingold says, the Chinese nationalist has begun to instrumentality American policies personally, interpreting them arsenic being directed astatine mean Chinese radical alternatively than critiques of the governing Chinese Communist Party.

Honor guards rise a Taiwanese emblem astatine the Presidential Palace up of the National Day solemnisation ceremonial successful Taipei, Taiwan. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo)

Zhu, the Bucknell professor, laid it retired starkly successful comments to Fox News Digital, saying, "While implicit 80% of Americans surveyed presumption China negatively now, the affirmative Chinese views of America person also dropped. … What is antithetic present than a fewer years agone is that galore Chinese, including liberals successful China, person go much captious of the United States … and judge the U.S. is not welcoming Chinese students, tourists and businesspeople." 

Zhu noted that immoderate states specified arsenic Florida person chopped virtually each taste and acquisition exchanges with Beijing. 

Japan, which besides has a tense narration with China, offered its congratulations to Trump Wednesday. Barron’s quoted Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba arsenic saying helium hoped the countries’ confederation would determination "to caller heights" during Trump’s 2nd term. 

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In this photograph provided by the North Korean government, North Korean person Kim Jong Un, left, supervises artillery firing drills successful North Korea March 7, 2024. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

In a station connected X, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol some congratulated and praised Trump, writing, "Under your beardown leadership, the aboriginal of the ROK [Republic of Korea]-U.S. confederation and America volition radiance brighter. Look guardant to moving intimately with you." 

And contempt the views of immoderate that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un would invited the instrumentality of Trump to the White House, determination was nary contiguous authoritative remark from the alleged "Hermit Kingdom." But North Korea "fired aggregate short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastbound sea" hours earlier the U.S. predetermination connected Tuesday. 

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