Beijing scholar says Trump expressed his support for Taiwan immediately after he won the presidential election and that Trump’s subsequent action spoke for itself
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/10/17
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—A Chinese scholar said during a media interview that there will be no possibility of war across the Taiwan Strait, not only because U.S. President Donald Trump supports peaceful Taiwan independence, but also because China has changed its Taiwan policy from unification by armed forces to “peaceful unification,” reported UDN on Wednesday.
In a recent interview with Global Times, a newspaper published by Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily, Yan Xuetong (閻學通), the Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University, analyzed a speech given by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at an American think tank in early October.
During the speech, Pence criticized China and spoke favorably about Taiwan several times.
Global Times asked Yan whether Pence’s stance reflected a significant change in U.S. policy toward Taiwan and China compared to past administrations and whether the chance of a war between China and Taiwan has increased. [FULL STORY]
