Trump's ‘Chess Game’ May Hurt Taiwan, Opposition Says
- Kuomintang vice chairman speaks before Tsai transits in U.S.
- ‘We’re not on the front burner’: former foreign minister Hu
Jason Hu, vice chairman of the Kuomintang.
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Taiwan’s main opposition party warned against getting involved in the “big power play” of Donald Trump, ahead of President Tsai Ing-wen’s transit stop in the U.S. this weekend.
Taiwan should instead seek to strengthen one-on-one ties with countries such as the U.S., China and Japan, according to Jason Hu, a vice chairman of the China-friendly Kuomintang party that lost power last year. President-elect Trump broke diplomatic protocol by taking a call from Tsai last month and later linking the U.S.’s policy on Taiwan to a better trade deal with China, drawing a rebuke from Beijing.