Pompeo Says U.S. Should Recognize Taiwan as Ukraine War Flares
- Move would anger Beijing, which views island as its territory
- U.S. has pursued ‘strategic ambiguity’ on Taiwan since 1970s
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The U.S. should immediately move toward recognizing Taiwan as a country, former U.S. Secretary of State and potential presidential candidate Mike Pompeo said in Taipei, comments that garnered a testy response from Beijing.
“It is imperative to change 50 years of ambiguity,” said Pompeo, the top diplomat in the Trump administration who is visiting Taipei in an unofficial capacity at the invitation of a think tank.