MAINTAINING STABILITY: Tsai Ing-wen thanked the US for its support after the White House press secretary said that the US would oppose Beijing’s political interference
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 25, 2018
By: Lee Hsin-fang and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer and Bloomberg
The White House late on Thursday cautioned China against luring away Taiwan’s allies,
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders points to reporter during the daily news briefing in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: AP
in the latest sign that trade friction between Washington and Beijing is expanding into a broader struggle for global clout.
In a harshly worded statement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the US would rethink relations with El Salvador after the Central American nation this week cut ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.
The US would seek to deter Chinese efforts to forge new diplomatic bonds in the region, Sanders said.
“The El Salvadoran government’s receptiveness to China’s apparent interference in the domestic politics of a Western Hemisphere country is of grave concern to the United States, and will result in a re-evaluation of our relationship with El Salvador,” she said. “The United States will continue to oppose China’s destabilization of the cross-strait relationship and political interference in the Western Hemisphere.” [FULL STORY]
