REMINDER:The four Congressional Taiwan Caucus cochairs urged Trump in a letter to consult with Congress before his Asia visit, ‘especially on issues related to Taiwan’
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 29, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Taiwan’s representative office in Washington yesterday expressed its gratitude to four US representatives who wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump stressing the importance of Taiwan-US ties ahead of Trump’s visit to Asia scheduled for next week.
The signatories are the cochairs of the Congressional Taiwan Caucus, including Democratic representatives Gerald Connolly and Albio Sires, and Republican representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Gregg Harper, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US said in a press release.
In the letter dated on Thursday, the representatives said that Taiwan is a significant economic and security partner of the US and is one of its closet allies in the Asia-Pacific region.
“The United States and Taiwan established an enduring partnership through the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979 and the deliverance of the Six Assurances in 1982. Adhering to these commitments is in the vital US national security interest,” the letter said. [FULL STORY]
