President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday said that the US Department of State’s approval of a marketing license needed for US firms to sell Taiwan technology that would allow it to build domestic submarines would not only help the nation defend itself, but would also help maintain peace and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait.
Tsai made the remarks during a meeting with a delegation from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington-based conservative think tank, the Presidential Office said in a statement.
Tsai, who visited the institute in 2011, said she was pleased that AEI senior fellow John Bolton began his tenure as a White House national security adviser earlier this month.
The US is an important and reliable partner, Tsai said, adding that the two countries have close cooperative relations in the areas of politics, security, economics and culture based on their common democratic values, and should continue to deepen their strategic partnership.
Taiwan-US relations over the past year have been marked by several positive developments, including US President Donald Trump’s announcement of major arms sales to Taiwan and his reaffirmation of the US’ commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act in his National Security Strategy report, she said.
The two nations also share strategic interests, as the steady development of bilateral relations is an essential foundation for a free and open Indo-Pacific region, she added.
Relations are expected to continue to improve after the Taiwan Travel Act took effect last month, allowing for increased exchanges by Taiwanese and US officials at all levels, Tsai said, adding that Taiwan would continue to communicate with Washington to achieve cooperation through reciprocity and mutual assistance.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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