PARTNERS: High-level meetings between Taiwan and the US are ‘extremely valuable,’ as China continues its reclamation in the South China Sea, US Senator Jim Inhofe said
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 18, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The government yesterday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s signing into law of the
Representative to the US Stanley Kao is pictured in Washington yesterday. Photo: CNA
Taiwan Travel Act, which pledges to deepen the mutually beneficial partnership between the two nations.
Trump signed the act on Friday, when it went into effect. It aims to allow high-level visits between Taiwanese and US government officials.
The act, which serves as a follow-up to the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, allows “officials at all levels of the United States Government, including Cabinet-level national security officials, general officers and other executive branch officials, to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts.”
It also allows “high-level officials of Taiwan to enter the United States, under conditions which demonstrate appropriate respect for the dignity of such officials, and to meet with officials of the United States, including officials from the Department of State and the Department of Defense and other Cabinet agencies.” [FULL STORY]
