You wrote:

<<Whether we recognize them as a nation state doesn't matter.>>

Back in reality-land, it matters a lot. That's why the foreign policy establishment is aghast.

The FACT is the US government does NOT recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, and it is NOT for a president-elect to reverse decades of protocol on a whim and inflame the Asian hegemon. That was stupid and reckless, but what does one expect from Donald Trump?

Anyway, off-topic and I will return to ignoring your patent nonsense.