The top US envoy to Taiwan has assured the island that America remains committed to its security and wants to maintain a close partnership in the face of protests from Beijing.
“Our obligation to support Taiwan in maintaining a sufficient self-defence capability against coercion remains a foundational element of the Taiwan Relations Act,” Brent Christensen, director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy, told an online news conference on Wednesday.
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