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March 18th, 2018 
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nsnbc : U.S. President Donald Trump has signed legislation that encourages U.S. officials to promote meetings between U.S. and Taiwanese officials in either the United States or in Taiwan. Trump’s initiative, comparable to leading an elephant into Beijing’s “one-China-must-fit-all-Chinese porcelain store prompted predictable responses from Beijing.
Oh no, did Trump really walk an elephant into Beijing’s “one China fits everybody” porcelain store again?
President Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act on Friday despite protests from the People’s Republic of China. Trump effectively followed up on the trend he set already before his inauguration, angering Chinese officials by dragging the proverbial elephant into Beijing’s porcelain shop, opposing Beijing’s demand that “one China must be good enough for all Chinese”.
Already in December 2016 the government of the People’s Republic of China expressed “solemn complaints” with the United States after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen over the phone. The “solemn complaint” and Trump entering the one-size-fits-all porcelain store with a diplomatic elephant underpinned again that international law takes the backseat when competing interests of permanent Security Council members are at stake.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry said Saturday that the self-ruled island’s government would “continue to uphold the principles of mutual trust and mutual benefit to maintain close contact and communication with the U.S.”
Ex-president Lee Teng-hui supports independence referendum initiative. Image courtesy CNA.
U.S. and Taiwan officials already travel back and forth between the two countries, but the visits are usually kept low profile to avoid offending an increasingly assertive China that does not hesitate flexing its “soft-power-muscles” by implying economic and other “consequences” for overstepping Beijing’s “one-China-porcelain-store-dictates” or ambitions, as leading Taiwanese politicians are supporting plans to hold a referendum on independence from the People’s Republic in 2019.
China considers Taiwan a wayward province and seeks the island’s reunification with China. After Trump signed the legislation, the Chinese embassy said in a statement that clauses in the travel act “severely violate the one-China principle, the political foundation of the China-U.S. relationship.”
The leadership of the “People’s Republic” of China also said the Taiwan Travel Act violated U.S. commitments not to restore direct official contacts with Taiwan that were severed when Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.
CH/L – nsnbc 18.03.2018
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