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发帖数: 4718 | 1 Trump’s Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved
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It was planned weeks ahead by staffers and Taiwan specialists on both sides,
according to people familiar with the plans.
Immediately after Trump won the Nov. 8 election, his staffers compiled a
list of foreign leaders with whom to arrange calls. “Very early on, Taiwan
was on that list,” said Stephen Yates, a national security official during
the presidency of George W. Bush and an expert on China and Taiwan. “Once
the call was scheduled, I was told that there was a briefing for President-
elect Trump. They knew that there would be reaction and potential blowback.”
Alex Huang, a spokesman for Tsai, told the Reuters news agency, “Of course
both sides agreed ahead of time before making contact.”
Tsai’s office said she had told Trump during the phone call that she hoped
the United States “would continue to support more opportunities for Taiwan
to participate in international issues.”
Tsai will have sympathetic ears in the White House. Priebus is reported to
have visited Taiwan with a Republican delegation in 2011 and in October 2015
, meeting Tsai before she was elected president. Taiwan Foreign Minister
David Lee called him a friend of Taiwan and said his appointment as Trump’s
chief of staff was “good news” for the island, according to local news
media.
Edward J. Feulner, a longtime former president of the Heritage Foundation,
has for decades cultivated extensive ties with Taiwan and is serving as an
adviser to Trump’s transition team.
At the Republican National Convention in July, Trump’s allies inserted a
little-noticed phrase into the party’s platform reaffirming support for six
key assurances to Taiwan made by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 — a
priority for the Taiwan government. Also written into the 2016 platform was
tougher language about China than had been in the party’s platform in its
previous iteration four years ago.
“We salute the people of Taiwan, with whom we share the values of democracy
, human rights, a free market economy, and the rule of law,” the platform
said, adding that the current documents governing U.S.-Taiwan relations
should stand but adding, “China’s behavior has negated the optimistic
language of our last platform concerning our future relations with China.”
Yates, who helped write that portion of the platform, said Trump made clear
at the time that he wanted to recalibrate relationships around the world and
that the U.S. posture toward China was “a personal priority.”
About the same time, Navarro, one of Trump’s top economic and Asia advisers
, penned an op-ed saying that the United States must not “dump Taiwan” and
needs a comprehensive strategy to bolster what he termed “a beacon of
democracy.” |
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