Mike Pompeo says U.S. should move toward recognizing Taiwan as a country, comments that garnered a testy response from Beijing. “It is imperative to change 50 years of ambiguity,” said Pompeo, the top diplomat in the Trump administration. He is visiting Taipei in an unofficial capacity at the invitation of a think tank.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. should “no longer be ignored and avoided” in its relations with Taiwan, which China claims as its territory. The move would upend more than 40 years of “strategic ambiguity” on Taiwan, he says. China claims the island as part of its territory despite never controlling it, and has called for closer ties with Taiwan.
Taiwan’s status has drawn comparisons to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but Tsai says the two situations are very different. Since 1979, the United States has maintained informal, “people-to-people” ties with Taiwan while avoiding taking a position on its sovereignty.
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