Perfect "rebound" for China to capitalize on. They would gladly lap up Chinese money and it would be very easy to whip up anti-American sentiment. 

That's just stupidity. The US has the military capability of blowing up the world 4 times over, but China only has the capability of doing it once. When the power of each side is that huge, then relative size is irrelevant. Whatever the US does, China can still scorch a lot of earth in retaliation and it won't matter who wins that sort of military conflict.

The US cannot afford a direct military conflict with China. In some ways, because living in poverty, subsistence and low access to technology in the living memory of most of its population, makes China more resilient at managing the aftgermath of direct military conflict with the USA. The US military might be hard, but the US citizenry is soft.

The US also can't afford a trade war. And if the USA starts closing its doors, it only strengthen's China's hand.

They're actually antagonising themselves. Countries should be free to have relations with other countries without the fear of whether or not it will upset another country.

If there would be another cold war, everyone would lose. Americans also profit from having all that cheap labour, you know. All that stuff people buy would not be sufficient if only Americans could produce it.

The concern trolls are hilarious. Oh no Trump took a phone call then world is going to end. It's been a long time since America has had President with balls that actually wanted to do positive things for the American people. You'll get used to to it.

1) China's military spending is pretty much below the world average if we take a look at the expenses to GDP ratio plus they can't exactly project much power outside of it's borders either. China's military is at least a decade behind the US in practically every area too. US also spends more on military relative to their GDP so it doesn't make any sense for China to spend more on a losing game. The only game that China is even winning in is the economic game so it doesn't make much sense for them to raise military spending given that there's absolutely no more incentives for them ... 

War is a very expensive game if we take a look at Iraq and China just straight up doesn't want to do it ... 

2) Not many Mexican's willing to sell their territories yet but they could definitely work out a deal with a country that's as desperate as Venezuela ... 

3) Now you're making out China's leaders to be like Trump, LOL. It's makes no logical sense for China's leaders to be compulsive dicks when it's not a necessity to do so in their favour most of the time. The only thing China wants is your money and land, nothing more ...

This sounds like the plot for a very good sequel to a movie

I think taking the call from Taiwan was fine and sent a message.

However going on Twitter to post antagonizing Tweets I think is ... probably not wise.

I think things like that are going to push extremist elements in the Chinese government to force their own leadership to respond and beef up their own military more urgently which isn't a good thing.

Then you will have hardliners in the Trump camp telling him he has to respond to that, and the whole cycle of stupidity keeps escalating.

It seems less like poking the bear and more like poking back, since China was the one to come out first and say "Hey, you can't accept that phone call!"

I believe the world has forgotten in the presence of Obama that America can poke back (though doing so on Twitter is pretty juvenile).

Actually China is much more pissed about the president of US recognizing a nation they believe is part of China, than what he tweets about.

Anyway since he's pro-Putin it only makes sense he's anti-China.