Twelve days after handover, Trump opens relationship with Taiwan

Twelve days after the transfer of presidential command, United States removed decades-old restrictions on official contact with TaiwnSecretary of State Mike Pompeo announced today in a statement.

Pompeo said that “the complex internal restrictions” which regulated the contact of diplomats, members of the armed forces and others Taiwn they had been imposed “to try to appease the communist regime in Beijing”, but “no more”.

The statement, which took place over the last two weeks of the government of Donald trumpwill surely elicit a reaction from China, which considers Taiwn as a rogue province and has strived to isolate the island from the rest of the world.

Pompeo met yesterday, for the first time, Tony Blinken, who was appointed by President-elect Democrat Joe biden, to occupy the post of Secretary of State, thus facilitating an “orderly” transition of power.

Pompeo explained on his Twitter account that the purpose of the meeting is “to ensure that the interests of Americans are protected abroad”. But nothing was said in the information from that meeting that the topic had been Taiwn.

Taiwan was the refuge of Chinese nationalists defeated by communist forces in 1949.