Zero Hedge
Date: 10/14/2019
By: Tyler Durden

Over the past several weeks there has been an ongoing tit-for-tat between visas granted by China and the United States for each others citizens. One of the more significant, we found out Sunday in the Wall Street Journal , is that China barred a bipartisan delegation of American lawmakers over their planned stop in Taiwan. ​​​​​​

Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY) writes in Sunday a Journal Op-Ed that "Chinese officials told members of my staff on multiple occasions that if I canceled the trip to Taiwan, I would be granted a visa." 

Maloney calls it "visa blackmail, designed to stanch the longstanding tradition of robust U.S. congressional engagement with Taiwan…"

When Maloney refused to cancel the Taiwan leg, Chinese officials then demanded that he issue a statement endorsing Beijing's version of the "one China policy," acknowledging mainland China to be the only sovereign China, "delegitimizing Taiwan’s political existence and further isolating the island’s 24 million people," writes Maloney.     [FULL  STORY]