Assistant Secretary Cooper meets with Taiwan‘s representative to the United States in August of last year.
After the State Department lifted restrictions on exchanges between U.S. and Taiwanese officials, Assistant Secretary Cooper met with Taiwan’s representative to the United States, Mei-Chen Hsiao, in Washington, D.C., on the morning of November 11 EST. In addition, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra invited Taiwan’s Representative to the Netherlands Chen Hsin-sin to the embassy for a meeting, and made history with a social media post and photo release.
Assistant Secretary of State Kubu met behind closed doors with Taiwan’s representative to the U.S. Hsiao Mei-chin, and the two sides did not announce the location of the meeting. This was not the first time the two met, as Cooper tweeted and released photos of an elbow-to-elbow with Hsiao on Aug. 14 after Hsiao’s arrival in the U.S. at the end of July last year.
No coincidence, the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Hoekstra tweeted on the 11th that history was made on this day, first of all, welcome Taiwan representative Chen Xinxin to the embassy, very happy that State Department colleagues around the world can now receive friends from vibrant democracies to the embassy, the end of the text and thanked the Taiwan representative office in the Netherlands for extending a hand of friendship.
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Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a regular press conference on the 12th, Deputy Director General of the European Division Chen Wing-shao was pressed for details of the meeting between Hoekstra and Chen Xinxin only said that it was inconvenient to explain to the public, but the relevant interactions are very close, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has noted the posting of the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is happy to see such things.
The U.S. Ambassador to Taiwan met Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is optimistic about continuing to deepen Taiwan-U.S. relations
Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Ou Jiang’an further pointed out that the details of the arrangements and talks related to the talks between Taiwan and U.S. officials have not been relayed to the public, but the future of the Republic of China government will uphold the principles of mutual trust, reciprocity and mutual benefit, so as to continue to steadily promote and deepen the Taiwan-U.S. global partnership.
Ou Jiang’an: “Our goal is to make the mutual trust and cooperation in Taiwan-U.S. relations to be continuously enhanced, between Taiwan and the United States to share common values such as freedom, democracy and human rights, which we cherish, so under the efforts of both sides, we will go further to strengthen and global partnership, and will continue to deepen mutual relations on such a friendly basis. “
Zhang Yushao: Xiao Meiqin into the State Council in Taiwan both inside and outside
Cross-Strait Policy Association Deputy Secretary General Zhang Yushao interviewed by our analysis, as U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo said, he really does not understand why the United States to self-imposed restrictions. First, he defined Taiwan as a vibrant democracy and a trusted ally of the United States, which explains the qualitative and quantitative changes in Taiwan-U.S. relations with the U.S.-China relationship. Under this definition, Pompeo told everyone that the U.S. administrative bureaucracy, self-imposed limits in a complex reality, actually affects Taiwan-U.S. exchanges in diplomacy, military and defense officials, and he sees no need for self-imposed limits.
U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Hoekstra invited, Taiwan’s representative to the Netherlands Chen Hsin Hsin to the embassy for a meeting. (Screenshot from Hoekstra’s tweet)
Zhang Yushao: “I think Xiao Meiqin has been in the State Department in the past, but that was low-key and Taiwan got the ‘lining’; after this restriction is lifted, it’s called ‘both the lining and the face’, the form and the substance have been reached. 0219 (The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands received Taiwan’s representative in the Netherlands at the embassy) This is meant to give European countries a demonstration of friendly democracies with the U.S., and if there are tangible and intangible restrictions on interactions with Taiwan can be loosened.”
As for Pompeo’s removal of restrictions on U.S.-Taiwan relations at this time, will the next administration continue to comply? Zhang Yushao believes that there are still variables, the Biden administration can be passive inaction or return to a low profile, and this is very likely. However, Zhang Yushao suggested that the U.S. Congress has just passed the National Defense Authorization Act in the “Taiwan Assurance Act” has been set out, the Secretary of State must report to Congress within 180 days for the guidelines for U.S.-Taiwan relations, which must be complied with, because this is in accordance with the law administration.
Zhang Yushao: “Pompeo lifting the ban is an executive order, there is room for administrative discretion, the next time the President and the Secretary of State whether to comply with his norms have variables. However, the House and Senate passed the Taiwan Assurance Act, which is the law, how can the Secretary of State not comply with the law, democratic countries are administered in accordance with the law.”
Taiwan Officials Expose Communist China’s “Armed Scare” North-South Attack on Lin Yingyou: PLA Intends to Shape “Blockade” Situation
At the same time, the Taiwan media Free Times 12 quoted the Republic of China military senior personnel confirmed that the PLA recently implemented a number of warships live fire and confrontation exercises in the East China Sea waters of northern Taiwan, respectively, in the southern waters of Fujian Province in western Taiwan, helicopter formation cross-sea assault, island occupation exercises, as the military exercise area is in the northern and southern ends of Taiwan, with a strong target on Taiwan.
Zhang Guocheng pointed out that this is actually just a normal drill, the other side of the Taiwan Strait will want the outside world to think that “this is aimed at the Trump administration! In fact, the army must be often in the exercise, they are at any time exercises will not surprise people. They are hoping that the regular exercises can have an additional effect is the best, this political effect to us to think so; if we do not think, do not pay attention, then there is no political effect.”
Lin Yingyou, assistant professor at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies at CKS University, interpreted that the PLA exercises are targeted, but the military utility is not necessarily so strong. Assuming that the exercise is real, the recent editor-in-chief of the Global Times, Hu Xijin, and the editorial have a strong response to the U.S. State Department’s lifting of Taiwan-U.S. exchange restrictions, Lin Yingyou believes that similar drill-related actions can be seen as a military exercise to convey or vent.
Lin Yingyou: “The PLA’s next exercise will be to select the northern and southern parts of the northern Taiwan Strait, which are more important, and he will go to shape the ‘blockade’ situation. Taiwan’s important ports and shipping lanes are in the western part of Taiwan, if the Taiwan Strait is blocked, that is his strategic thinking.”
Lin Yingyou observed that the future Biden administration may not provoke the Chinese Communist Party too much in words or concrete actions. But he will still maintain relations with allies, because this is a line of defense against the Communist Party of China or against the Chinese Communist Party, so the “Indo-Pacific strategy” mentioned in the Trump era should not make much change; similarly, the U.S.-Japan-India-Australia exercises or some security dialogues should continue.
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