BEIJING: China on Friday praised US president Donald Trump's snub of Taiwan, noting that observers had called his decision not to take a second call from the island's president a "slap in the face."
Trump rattled China in December after taking a congratulatory call from the self-ruling island's new Beijing-skeptic president Tsai Ing-wen after his election, smashing decades of diplomatic precedent.
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