{"id":16434,"date":"2018-03-01T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/serious-violation-china-lashes-out-at-us-over-bill-promoting-ties-with-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:36:20","slug":"serious-violation-china-lashes-out-at-us-over-bill-promoting-ties-with-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/serious-violation-china-lashes-out-at-us-over-bill-promoting-ties-with-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Serious violation\u2019: China lashes out at US over bill promoting ties with Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

China lodged an official protest with the United States on Thursday, saying it was \u201cstrongly dissatisfied\u201d after the US Senate passed a bill promoting relations with self-governing Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The US Senate passed the Taiwan Travel Act, intended to encourage visits between the United States and Taiwan \u201cat all levels\u201d, by unanimous consent on Wednesday, following its approval in the House of Representatives in January.<\/p>\n

\"Tsai<\/p>\n

Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen. Photo: Tsai Ing-wen Flickr.<\/p>\n

The bill adds that it should be US policy for high-level Taiwanese officials to enter the United States, meet with US officials and conduct business in the country.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s signature is now all that is needed for the bill to become law \u2014 something that is not likely to be an obstacle, given that the bill was passed unanimously.<\/p>\n

Washington cut formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1979, recognising the Communist mainland rulers in Beijing as the sole government of \u201cOne China.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that while some of the new bill\u2019s provisions are not legally binding, it \u201cseriously violates\u201d the One China principle.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Photo: Wikicommons.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposes it,\u201d Hua told a regular news briefing, adding that Beijing had made \u201csolemn representations\u201d to the US \u2014 a diplomatic protest.<\/p>\n

The United States, she said, should stop official exchanges with Taiwan and handle Taiwan issues \u201cprudently and properly\u201d to avoid \u201cdamaging Sino-US relations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, Washington maintains an ambiguous approach to the island, maintaining trade relations and selling Taipei weapons.<\/p>\n

Trump sparked protest from China shortly after his election in 2016 by accepting a phone call from Taiwan\u2019s leader Tsai Ing-wen, an action seen as breaking the protocol of the One China policy.<\/p>\n

He made amends by vowing to uphold the One China policy shortly before Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort \u2014 but infuriated Beijing again last summer by approving a $1.3 billion arms sale to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The post \u2018Serious violation\u2019: China lashes out at US over bill promoting ties with Taiwan<\/a> appeared first on Hong Kong Free Press HKFP<\/a>. Author: AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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China lodged an official protest with the United States on Thursday, saying it was \u201cstrongly dissatisfied\u201d after the US Senate passed a bill promoting relations with self-governing Taiwan. The US Senate passed the Taiwan Travel Act, intended to encourage visits between the United States and Taiwan \u201cat all levels\u201d, by unanimous consent on Wednesday, following …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}