Flag removals damaging to Taiwan: Ted Yoho

Taipei Times
Date: Mar 28, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA, Washington

The US is diminishing Taiwan’s international status by taking down its flag from US government Web sites, US Representative Ted Yoho said on Sunday.

In an article titled “The Marginalization of Taiwan Must End” published in the National Interest magazine, Yoho said that what might seem a trivial move to remove the flag from the Web sites is actually detrimental to Taiwan and the US.

The removals started with the US Department of State taking down the flag from its Web site in September last year, followed by other US government agencies, he said.

The removal was not meaningless and “appears to be the result of a change in how the State Department handles some of the gray area in the US conception of ‘one China,’” Yoho said.    [FULL  STORY]

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