The incident is not expected to affect US backing for one-China consensus

US president-elect Donald Trump has caused an unexpected diplomatic incident with China by taking a phone call from Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen, but the call itself is expected to have "very limited influence" and is not expected to affect the one-China policy, analysts in Washington and Beijing said over the weekend.

On Friday, after Trump took the call, the White House reaffirmed its long-standing support for the one-China policy and the three China-US joint communiques, issued between 1972 and 1982, that guide China-US relations.