Even as the Trump administration is trying to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine (and saying some things in the process that aren’t remotely fair), the administration also seems to be hinting it is changing the US’s long-held position on Taiwan. The change to a State Department fact sheet was small but significant.
The fact sheet, produced by the department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, previously stated that the U.S. opposes “any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.”
However, in the updated version published on Feb. 13, the line stating that the U.S. does not support Taiwan’s independence had been removed.
The updated paragraph now reads: “We oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side. We expect…
