Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/09
By: Elaine Hou and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Dec. 9 (CNA) Taiwan’s government wants peaceful development of relations

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across the Taiwan Strait, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Saturday in the wake of a comment by a Chinese diplomat that threatened military action by China if U.S. Navy ships are allowed to call at Taiwan ports.

MOFA spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章) told CNA that the Taiwan government has long been pursuing the stable and peaceful development of cross-strait relations and will not go the route of resistance but neither will it cave under pressure.

The issue arose after the U.S. Congress on Nov. 30 passed the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes clauses that would allow the U.S. to look at the possibility of reestablishing “regular ports of call by the U.S. Navy at Kaohsiung or any other suitable ports in Taiwan” and permits the U.S. Pacific Command to receive ports of call by Taiwan vessels.    [FULL  STORY]