Project 2049 Institute report ‘U.S. Taiwan Relations in a Sea of Change’ offers policy recommendations for the U.S. to strengthen ties with Taiwan
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/19
By: Duncan DeAeth,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – On March 16, analysts in Washington D.C. published a report
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with the Project 2049 Institute entitled “U.S. Taiwan Relations in a Sea of Change,” the same day that Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act.
The report examines the geopolitical situation facing Taiwan, and offers key policy recommendations for the U.S. government to strengthen relations with Taiwan, and to ease cross-strait tensions. Provocatively, the report calls for direct diplomatic meetings between the Trump and Tsai administrations to better coordinate on economic and security strategy.
A face to face meeting between President Trump and President Tsai Ing-wen is proposed in the report to help establish direct communication at the highest levels between leaders of the two countries.
Only several years ago, such a meeting would have been considered far out of bounds for recent U.S. policy towards Taiwan, which has been guided by the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, on the one hand, and the desire of Washington to cultivate good relations with Beijing, on the other. [FULL STORY]
