The Lobbying Campaign Behind Trump’s Taiwan Phone Call

President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen broke a decades-long U.S. policy of avoiding direct contact between the U.S. government and Taiwanese leaders. Trump supporters said his maverick foreign policy instincts prompted the call; detractors accused him of rashly provoking China (which doesn’t recognize the Taiwanese government, and considers the Island to be…