CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TAIWAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has not decided whether he will sign legislation that would allow U.S. officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts, the White House said on Thursday, as China repeated its opposition. The legislation, approved by both chambers of the U.S. Congress, has angered China, which regularly […]
Category: Taiwan
7/10/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TAIWAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Chinese official said on Monday [7-10-17] that the United States had apologized for a White House statement that misidentified China’s leader, Xi Jinping, as president of the Republic of China — the formal name for Taiwan. ‘According to my understanding, the Chinese side has already raised this with the United […]
2/10/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TAIWAN: “When President Trump took a phone call from the leader of Taiwan in December and asserted that the United States might no longer be bound by the ‘One China’ policy, his defenders hailed it as a show of strength — the latest delicate issue on which Mr. Trump was willing to challenge decades […]