SIDELINED:KMT:  lawmakers warned against favoring the US over China, saying that Taiwan’s interests might be sacrificed by a profit-minded Trump government

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 26, 2018
By: Sean Lin  /  Staff reporter

Lawmakers yesterday urged President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration to adopt a proactive approach following the US government’s removal of the Republic of China (ROC) flag from some of its Web sites.

Taiwan’s interests could be sacrificed in US-China negotiations if its diplomatic and national security organs fail to see through US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, with its profit mindset, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) secretary-general Lee Yen-hsiu (李彥秀) told a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.

“If the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] administration, with its unrequited affections, continues to adopt a foreign policy that is disproportionately tilted toward the US, it could end up gaining nothing from both sides [the US and China],” she said.

Local media reports earlier this week said that the ROC flag has disappeared from the Web sites of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs and the Office of the US Trade Representative.    [FULL  STORY]