United States (US) lawmakers voted to greenlight an agreement aimed at deepening economic relations with Taiwan, prompting an irritated response from Beijing on Thursday (June 22).
The US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade streamlines customs checks, looks to improve regulatory procedures and establishes anticorruption measures.
China said Thursday that the move"seriously contravenes the US side's stated commitment to maintain only unofficial relations with Taiwan". "The US should... stop promoting and immediately withdraw , and stop sending erroneous signals to 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces," the ministry said. The governments maintain unofficial ties, however, through the de facto US embassy on the island, the American Institute in Taiwan, which signed the agreement earlier this month with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States.
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