TAIPEI: Taiwan's fears that it will become a bargaining chip between China and the United States worsened Friday after a snub by President Donald Trump, who said he would not do anything to upset Beijing.

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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