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China fumes over Taiwan delegation’s secret talks with Trump govt

Published on April 07, 2025 at 01:34 PM

China’s foreign ministry on Monday said they have lodged “stern”; representations with the US over reports that a delegation from Taiwan is in Washington for secret talks.

On Saturday, the Financial Times reported that Taiwan security chief Joseph Wu and his entourage flew to Washington for talks with the Trump administration.

Their trip comes as Beijing ramps up military drills around the self-governing island it views as a breakaway province.

“China firmly opposes any form of official interactions between the U.S. and Taiwan,”; spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lin Jian, said at a briefing in Beijing.

Although the US has no official relations with Taiwan, it is the island democracy’s most important international backer.

This means America is bound by law to provide Taiwan with defensive weapons in the face of threats from Beijing, which has not ruled out the use of force to achieve its unification goal.

Lin has however said that Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, whom Beijing considers a “separatist”; and “troublemaker,”; will not succeed in seeking “independence”; by relying on the US and urged Trump's administration to refrain from creating new tensions in the Taiwan Strait.

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