（联合早报 - 台北综合讯）继美国候任总统特朗普与台湾总统蔡英文通电话后，特朗普过渡团队的顾问、与台湾绿营关系深厚的叶望辉（Stephen Yates）明天将抵台访问五天，并与蔡英文进行不公开会面。
综合台媒报道，叶望辉是应台湾国安体系智库“远景基金会”之邀，参加讨论“美中台关系”的闭门研讨会。
叶望辉是美国传统基金会研究员，是现任爱达荷州共和党主席。他曾担任美国前副总统切尼的亚洲顾问，也是将《台湾关系法》和对台六项保证纳入共和党党纲的起草人，是公开挺台的前美国官员。
曾在台湾任传教士
信奉摩门教的他曾于1987到1989年间在高雄任传教士，不但说得一口流利的中文，还有绰号叫“阿辉仔”。由于他是从年轻时就体会台湾的民主化过程，又是从草根社会开始接触台湾，因此对台湾有更深的感情。
据传，除传统基金会创办人福伊尔纳（Edwin Feulner）以外，叶望辉也是在幕后促成特朗普和蔡英文通电话的另一个关键人物，但叶望辉否认自己是牵线人。
他与绿营人士关系深厚。风传媒引述绿营人士说，被特朗普任命为白宫幕僚长的普里巴斯（Reince Priebus）与叶望辉熟识，加上叶望辉对东亚情势长期关注，他有可能进入特朗普执政团队，这将对台湾相当有利。
在美国，特朗普与蔡英文通电也引起轩然大波，叶望辉昨天与小布什政府时代的国务院资深顾问惠顿（Christian Whiton）联名投书福斯新闻网（Fox news），为特朗普此举叫好，并指这通电话会引起震惊，正好凸显美中政策已变得多荒谬。
在题为“特朗普和台湾总统说话为什么是正确”的文章里，两人写到，中国大陆与华府的外交政策建制派以为他们能告诉特朗普，可以跟谁与不可以跟谁讲电话，他们想错了。
文章指出，北京因为特朗普接了蔡英文的电话，还称她为“台湾的总统”而发怒，但美国外交政策建制派与其媒体伙伴竟然比北京还愤怒，声称这是犯了“重大错误”。这类的高傲态度，正是为什么已故参议员赫姆斯（Jesse Helms）曾开玩笑说美国国务院需要的是“一张美国办公桌”，以提醒一些人，他们究竟该为谁的利益服务。
文章也称，特朗普与蔡总统通话，不必然是美国更广泛政策的改变，特朗普在明年1月20日以前都还不是美国总统，他接了另一个民选领袖的道贺电话是一个简单礼貌，也是履行了他在竞选期间所说：会开诚布公与想和美国维系良好关系的外国领导人对话。
文章总结，如果一通简单的礼貌性致电，一点“关于台湾的真相”，都会如专家所说的，将威胁太平洋的和平，美国的防务体系需要重新评估与改进。特朗普对这些把美国带入歧途的专家置之不理，反而是个好的开端。
叶望辉准备启程到台湾 期待有趣的一周
（中央社洛杉矶5日电）美国前副总统钱尼的国安顾问叶望辉今天在脸书上打卡，表示要从洛杉矶国际机场到台北市旅行，他并贴文「应该会是有趣的一周」。
美国总统当选人川普和总统蔡英文2日通电话，引起高度重视，美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）曾报导，背後牵线促成此事的是叶望辉。
叶望辉（Stephen Yates）日前在华盛顿观察家报（Washington Examiner）否认有CNN报导他在幕後牵线促成川普（Donald Trump）与蔡英文总统通电话。
追踪叶望辉的脸书可发现，他已经在洛杉矶打卡，显示将从洛杉矶国际机场到台北市旅行，他自己也贴文说：「应该会是有趣的一周」（Should be an interesting week. ）
叶望辉是共和党今年全代会将「台湾关系法」与对台「六项保证」纳入党纲的起草人。叶望辉曾在台湾生活、学中文、於高雄传教，他这次前往台湾访问十分低调，一般认为，他可能有机会与蔡总统会面。
叶望辉打卡 罗致政：有趣是个敏感字
（中央社记者戴雅真台北5日电）美国前副总统钱尼的国安顾问叶望辉今天在脸书打卡，表示启程到台北，他并贴文「应该会是有趣的一周」；民进党国际事务部主任罗致政留言戏称，「有趣」在台北已成一个敏感字。
美国总统当选人川普和总统蔡英文2日通电话，引起高度重视，美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）曾报导，背後牵线促成此事的是叶望辉。
叶望辉（Stephen Yates）日前在华盛顿观察家报（Washington Examiner）否认有CNN报导他在幕後牵线促成川普与蔡英文总统通电话。
叶望辉此行来台，他於台北时间今天下午在洛杉矶国际机场打卡，显示将启程到台北市旅行，他也贴文说：「应该会是有趣的一周。」（Should be an interesting week. ）
罗致政在底下留言，祝叶望辉旅途愉快，也开玩笑说：「『interesting』在台北已经变成一个敏感的字了。哈哈。」（"interesting" has become a sensitive word in Taipei. Haha.）
川普2日与蔡总统通话後，於推特留言，「美国卖数十亿美元武器装备给台湾，我怎麽连一通祝贺电话都接不得，这真有意思」。（Interesting how the U.S.sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.）部份媒体错译，引发讨论。
Why Trump was right to talk with Taiwan's president
By Stephen Yates, Christian Whiton
China and the Washington foreign policy establishment thought they could tell President-elect Donald Trump whom he can and cannot speak with on the phone. They thought wrong.
On Friday, Trump received a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, in which the leaders briefly touched upon economic, political, and security-related ties between our two democracies. Trump congratulated Tsai on her own victory in Taiwanese elections earlier in the year—a watershed since Tsai is the first woman leader in Asia who isn’t the daughter or wife of a previous leader.
Tsai’s victory also marked the third shift in power from one party to another in Taiwan—a symbol of a matured Taiwanese democracy and further proof that democracy can work for ethnically Chinese people wherever they reside.
None of this is welcome in Beijing, whose deeply corrupt and authoritarian government is used to getting its way from the United States, especially on Taiwan. Beijing is mad not only that Trump took a call from Tsai—even though he previously spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping—but that the statement announcing the call referred to Tsai accurately as the “president of Taiwan”—a reality that is obvious to average Americans, Taiwanese, and Chinese, but something diplomats like to pretend isn’t so.
The foreign policy establishment and their media buddies were even more apoplectic than Beijing. The leftwing UK Guardian huffed that Trump had upended “37 years of U.S. diplomatic practice in a few minutes,” said the call was a gaffe or provocation (must it be either?), and hinted without evidence that Trump was trying to advance his personal financial interests. The New York Times claimed that the simple call was a bigger “provocation” of Beijing than selling billions in weapons to Taiwan, which the United States has routinely done even after breaking formal diplomatic ties in 1979 to please Beijing.
Nick Burns, a longtime member of Foreign Service guild that dominates the State Department, tweeted, “Taking a call from Taiwan’s leader a significant mistake by Trump. Is he listening to the State Department?”
That type of condescension is why the late Senator Jesse Helms once joked that the State Department needs an “America Desk” to remind some people there whose interests they are supposed to serve. These experts need to listen to the American people and the person who was just elected president—not the other way around.
Furthermore, the call between Trump and Tsai was not necessarily a change in broader policy—something that should be obvious since Trump doesn’t become president until January 20th. Rather, it struck most Americans as a decision by Trump to take a congratulatory call from another democratically elected leader. This is simple courtesy and a fundamental part of real diplomacy. Trump is adhering to the what he made clear throughout the presidential campaign: that he will be open to talking to foreign leaders who want good relations with the United States.
The fact that a simple courtesy call caused so much trepidation and genuflections to past protocol just shows how absurd U.S.-China policy has become. If a little courtesy to a democratic friend and a little truth about Taiwan could really threaten peace in the Pacific, as the experts contend, then we need to reevaluate our defense and come up with something better.
Trump is off to a good start by ignoring the experts who have led us astray.
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