Language on Taiwan has been dropped from a joint communique on the eve of a meeting of European Union and Asean leaders in Brussels, after a sharp disagreement over how to describe Taiwan’s political status.
The dispute centred on whether there was a universal “one-China principle”, with Asean negotiators pushing for text that was closer to that of Beijing’s position on the matter, EU sources said, ahead of the first summit between the European Union and the Association of South-East Asian Nations on Wednesday.
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