Taiwan government officials on Sunday welcomed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcement of lifting restrictions governing official US contacts with the
Taiwanese officials laud Pompeo s decision to lift curbs on US contact ANI | Updated: Jan 11, 2021 05:52 IST
Taipei [Taiwan], January 11 (ANI): Taiwan government officials on Sunday welcomed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo s announcement of lifting restrictions governing official US contacts with the country, with many calling it the latest example of bipartisan commitment to deepening Taiwan-US ties, reported Taipei Times.
In a statement on Saturday, Pompeo said that executive branch agencies should consider all contact guidelines regarding relations with Taiwan previously issued by the Department of State under authorities delegated to the Secretary of State to be null and void .
In Washington, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US said that the decision reflects the strength and depth of the Taiwan-US relationship.
president say now he s going to do the nfginvestigation right, he s going to be asked is that what the president said to you and what did you respond? he either takes the fifth or he says yes, that s what happened. and i think at that point it goes into a different phase, and then we ll have the issue of whether pompeo can be compelled himself to testify. just to add one more thing we should all have in mind at some point the testimony of john bolton, the national security adviser who watched all this and was appalled on the inside, who called it a drug deal, at some point that testimony is going to become crucial. will he testify? can he be compelled? this is all gaining momentum now, and you just see it and feel it. bob, you know, compare and contrast bolton with pompeo and what you see is bolton symptom everything, this is wrong, go to the lawyers. i quit and then you see pompeo
korea. well, the only reason war is seen imminent at one point is because the united states introduced the possibility we have backed down. and there s essentially as north korea continues to improve and increase the missile and the nuclear inventory the short range tests teach them things. they re amassing more nuclear material. the real question is whether we are willing to accept as a transitional or interim agreement something less than full denuclearization. they re not going to denuclearize and that s something that the intelligence community will say it. it s the question of whether pompeo and others are accepting half a loaf. some degree of limits on north korea s nuclear system in exchange for some degree of sanctions relief. i believe we get that kind of agreement. it may put a ceiling on it and there s a big difference. if we wake up one day and north korea has a hundred nuclear weapons on missiles that can reach the united states, so that would be incomparably worse than
i do. and i support any diplomacy and keep in mind this is not a situation where we could launch a bunch of air-strikes and cruise missiles and be done with it. we need a land war in asia to get rid of the north korea nuclear weapons to do it by force. cia director pompeo is in danger of not getting confirmed by the senate as secretary of state. several democrats on the committee have come out against him as this white house is preparing for the summit between trump and kim jong-un. tom cotton said in response to all of this, quote, it would send a very bad sign and it would set back the preparations and the results of the upcoming summit for the democrats to oppose and block his nomination to be secretary of state. what is your take? i disagree with senator cotton. the sometime the timing of a summit should not effect the position for years and we should look at whether pompeo is