Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/01/04
By: Sophia Yeh, Huang Chao-pin and Ko Lin

Taipei, Jan. 4 (CNA) The Presidential Office said Wednesday that it respects the views of a United States think tank, which recommended that the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump devise new strategies to maintain the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.

In a report published Tuesday, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) said that a reduction of cross-Taiwan Strait tensions were in the interests of both the U.S. and Taiwan.

The report urged the incoming administration in Washington to come up with a new “modus vivendi” to maintain the cross-strait status quo, saying that such measures would serve to reassure the U.S.’ allies in the Asia-Pacific region.

A new modus vivendi would “allow Taiwan to continue to develop its democracy and its economy,” the think tank said in the report.    [FULL  STORY]