Biden’s Taiwan, PRC balancing act
By Wang Kao-cheng 王高成
The US administration’s guidelines on exchanges with Taiwan have finally been released. The new version announced by the US Department of State on Friday last week relaxes restrictions on US exchanges with Taiwan. This will improve US-Taiwan relations, and affect interactions between Taiwan, the US and China.
Since diplomatic relations between the US and the Republic of China (ROC) were severed in 1979, Washington has maintained unofficial relations with Taiwan based on its Taiwan Relations Act. During this period, all US government agencies had restricted contact with Taiwan.
During the administration of former US president Donald Trump, tensions between Washington and Beijing increased, and the US polished the “Taiwan card.” Before Mike Pompeo stepped down as US secretary of state, he canceled contact guidelines announced in 2015, and eliminated all internal restrictions on official contact between US offi
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