It doesn't matter what I "feel." What matters is Trump violated US diplomatic protocol known as the "one-China policy," either out of ignorance or recklessness, before even assuming office.

You're right, I use hyperbole: to make a point. That's how rhetoric works. It's you who make primitive associations like "accepting a phone call is....'firebreathing.'" Let me break it down for you. Firebreathers refers to Trump aides who are firebreathers. Does not have to do with accepting phone call. Try reading slowly.

Of course China isn't going to war over what Foreign Minister Wang Yi disdainfully referred to as a "petty move." Do you live in a comic book? The point is that miscommunication and confusion does indeed result in unintended consequences and even enable wars.

Ex.: Hitler becomes chancellor, due, among other things, to confusion and cynicism about Gen. Kurt von Schleicher's intentions. 

April Glaspie's meetings with Saddam Hussein prior to the invasion of Kuwait.