Donald Trump, 10 days before retirement, is attempting a last minute nailing to China ahead of the launch of the next administration. The U.S. State Department announced on the 9th (local time) that it would withdraw internal regulations that restricted contact between U.S. and Taiwanese officials.
Shaking’One China’ Ahead of Retirement
Hand over public pressure to Biden’s government
![US President Donald Trump is announcing sanctions against China, including the abolition of special treatment in Hong Kong on May 29 last year at the Rose Garden of the White House. To the left is the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is adhering to a hard-line public position. [EPA=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/10/15b67abf-3707-4a7a-b82b-971da2687813.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
US President Donald Trump is announcing sanctions against China, including the abolition of special treatment in Hong Kong on May 29 last year at the Rose Garden of the White House. To the left is the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is adhering to a hard-line public position. [EPA=연합뉴스]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement today, “For decades, the State Department has regulated the contact of diplomats, soldiers, and other officials with Taiwan officials.” “The US government has taken these measures to appease the Chinese Communist Party regime, but it will not be so anymore.”Said. He declared that “going forward, under the authority delegated to the Secretary of State, all the’contact guidelines’ previously issued by the state on relations with Taiwan should be considered invalid.”
Earlier, the US government announced plans for the US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Kraft to visit Taiwan on the 13th and 15th. This is the first incumbent U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations visited Taiwan after Taiwan left the UN in 1971. Ambassador Kraft will meet Taiwan’s President Cai Ying-Won to discuss the issue of expanding Taiwan’s membership to international organizations. . On the 10th, CNN broadcast said, “Minister Pompeo’s orders will radically change the relationship between the US and Taiwan. It is expected to upset China.”
Attempt to regulate’US-China routes’ before the transfer of power
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on the 9th that “Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and a reliable partner of the United States.” Twitter capture
It is interpreted as an attempt to solidify the framework of U.S.-China relations before retirement after the Trump administration released the issue of Taiwan at the end of his tenure. Lee Seong-hyun, head of the China Research Center of the Sejong Institute, told the JoongAng Ilbo, “It is a measure that contains concerns of those who have strong distrust in China in the White House. The goal may be to damage the relationship to a fundamentally irreparable level.”
‘One China’ is difficult to concession… How the next government
![Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-won began his second term in office on May 20 last year. In his inauguration speech, President Chai declared that he would not accept the one-country and two-way policy, which is China's reunification plan. [AP=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/10/2186fb8d-ce4f-49c7-83ea-48744b9a15d3.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-won began his second term in office on May 20 last year. In his inauguration speech, President Chai declared that he would not accept the one-country and two-way policy, which is China’s reunification plan. [AP=연합뉴스]
The ball passed on to the next Biden government.
Nam-ju Lee, professor of Chinese Studies at Anglican University, said, “It is clear that the mutual visits of high-ranking personnel will stimulate China, which is most sensitive to the principle of’One China’.” “At the time when the economic conflict with China continues, the Biden administration “It is a burdensome situation to overturn Trump’s policy.” However, Center Director Seong-Hyeon Lee analyzed, “It is true that the burden of the Biden administration has increased,” and “It can be said that the action of the Trump administration has increased the room for negotiation by the Biden administration.
Meanwhile, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chun-ying said in a regular briefing on the 8th, “A small number of anti-Chinese political guests of the Trump administration, such as Pompeo, are hurting Sino-American relations with the last attack. He did not hesitate to express a fierce expression that goes beyond diplomatic rhetoric, saying, “I will be punished by history.”
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