U.S. Official Visits Taiwan in Highest Level Meeting in 14 Years
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A U.S. cabinet-level official met with Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou today in the highest-level U.S. government visit to the island democracy since 2000.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy praised Taiwan’s environmental efforts in a speech delivered today at National Taiwan University, according to a transcript from the unofficial U.S. diplomatic office in Taipei. She also said the U.S. remains committed to its “one China” policy as well as a domestic law governing relations with Taiwan, an independently governed island that China claims as its own.