POSITIVE APPROACH: Experts said it would be a mistake to invite Taiwan to join military exercises directly after uninviting China and the US should be pro-Taiwan, not anti-China
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 01, 2018
By: Nadia Tsao and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter in WASHINGTON, with staff writer
Beijing’s unilateral attempts to change the “status quo” across the Taiwan Strait should
Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Bush, left, speaks at a conference in Washington on Wednesday as Center for Strategic and International Studies China Power Project director Bonnie Glaser, second left, and Brookings research fellow Ryan Hass, second right, listen. Photo: Nadia Tsao, Taipei Times
be protested by the US government at the highest level, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Bush said on Wednesday.
Bush, a former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, made the comments at a conference in Washington held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Brookings, titled “Taiwan Under Tsai Ing-wen: A Two Year Review.”
China is the only party in the trilateral relationship actively trying to alter the “status quo,” Bush said.
US officials at the highest level should urge China to reconsider their coercive behavior “and we will be watching,” Bush said. [FULL STORY]
