If they spoke, Taiwan president would tell Trump China was undermining stability
TAIPEI: Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that if he got the opportunity to speak to US President Donald Trump he would say China was undermining peace and causing tensions in the region and that nobody has the right to “annex” the island.
A conversation between the two presidents has not taken place since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei in 1979.
Lai faces not only pressure from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and calls him a “separatist,” but also from the US, traditionally its most important supporter.
Last week following a summit with China’s Xi Jinping, Trump said he was undecided on further arms sales to Taiwan, which he said were a “good negotiating chip” and that he was “not looking to have somebody say, ‘Let’s go independent.”
Trump also suggested he might call Lai.
