US needs to normalize ties with Taiwan: ex-US official - Taipei Times

Taiwan has been denied recognition as a sovereign state by the US "based on the diplomatic hocus pocus that there is only one China," he said, adding that upholding the "one China" policy is a "charade."

 

Schmitt said that Taiwan's presidential election is to be a test of whether Beijing is truly a rising power of the modern, benign sort — as it claims — or more akin to the rising, not-so-benign powers of the 19th century.

 

"Allowing China to bully democratic Taiwan into global isolation, or giving the leadership in Beijing the sense that it has leverage over US policies toward the island, would create more instability, not less," he said.

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