By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

It seems the Don Quixote in the White House is rushing headlong into not just one, but several crises that could bring about his earlier than expected downfall, if not a bruised and battered image of a psychopath.
Buoyed by the doomsday weapons of the US and boastful of his country’s supposed economic might, Donald Trump thinks he can ride roughshod everywhere.
The situation at home is a mess, with people fast losing confidence and calling for his impeachment, as he fires and replaces at will, the officials whom he appoints.
At the same time, he is digging the graves of US soldiers abroad by impudently interfering in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, the Korean Peninsula and other places around the world.
Now all of a sudden the "dotard’ – as Trump is called by North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un – is provoking the east Asian giant China.
After imposing tariffs on iron and other imports that brought warnings of economic retaliation from China, he has now ventured into a minefield by meddling in the highly sensitive issue of Taiwan.
Trump is wrong to think that might is right. He cannot wield the same stick against each and everybody.
It seems he has not even learned the lessons the Islamic Republic of Iran has taught him regarding the 7-nation international nuclear accord or Iran’s right to develop missile technology, and maintain an alert presence in the neighbourhood on the invitation of regional governments and popular forces.
Bogged down in quicksand as a result of the diplomacy of Vladimir Putin, instead of humbly stretching a hand to any rescuer to bail him out, Trump, who has been inflated like a balloon by such sycophants as Saudi Arabia’s MBS (Mohamed bin Salman) and Benjamin Netanyahu of the illegal Zionist entity, he has, wittingly or unwittingly, wading into a quarrel with Beijing that could cost him a very high price.
China was swift in its reaction, and for the moment, has politely asked the US to correct its mistake, following a move by President Donald Trump to approve high-level contacts between officials from US and Taiwan – the breakaway island, which Beijing regards as a rebel entity and claims sovereignty over it.
China is demanding rectification after Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act, which encourages visits between US and Taiwanese officials "at all levels.”
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang said the clauses of the approved bill were legally non-binding but "severely violate the One China principle” and sent "very wrong signals to the pro-independence separatist forces in Taiwan.”
"China is strongly opposed to that,” Lu said of the bill, adding: "We urge the US side to correct its mistake, stop pursuing any official ties with Taiwan or improving its current relations with Taiwan in any substantive way.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry official also reiterated Beijing’s call for Washington to stop official exchanges with Taiwan, sever military relations with the self-ruled island, and stop selling arms to it.
The message from Beijing seems to be loud and clear. While the People’s Republic of China is actively pursuing reunification with the island, known formerly as Formosa and which the West separated from the mainland in 1949 by backing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the Chinese Civil War, it doesn’t want the US and the West to fan the flames of sedition in East Asia, especially after Trump’s abortive attempt to ignite war in Korea.
If there is any iota of commonsense left in Trump, he will rectify his stupid policies, if not he will be in real trouble, as the Free World will not let him play with fire and emerge unscathed.