טראמפ אישר חוק חדש העשוי לקדם את מערכת היחסים בין ארה"ב לטייוואן

Taiwan is thankful and China upset after a move by President Trump on Wednesday. He signed into law new rules regulating interactions between the United States and Taiwan. The Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act now requires the State Department to regularly review and update guidelines on interacting with Taiwan at least once every five years. Taiwan says the law stands as a firm symbol of the two countries' shared values of democracy, freedom and respect for human rights. The law has actually been in place since 2020, but the original only required guidelines to be reviewed once, not every five years. Taiwan's foreign minister says more frequent reviews will allow Taiwanese officials into U.S. federal agencies for meetings. This upsets Beijing and opposes any form of official contact between the U.S. and Taiwan. Beijing calls the island the Taiwan region of China and says the Taiwan question is the first red line that must not be crossed in China-U.S. relations. This isn't the first move of its kind by the U.S. In recent years, back in 2021, under the first Trump administration, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lifted restrictions on contacts between U.S. officials and their Taiwanese counterparts. This reversed limits put in place after Washington recognized communist China half a century ago.