TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan last Saturday cheered a new United States law that encourages expanded contacts between officials from Washington and the self-governing island democracy that China claims as its own and has increasingly sought to isolate diplomatically.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that following the signing of the Taiwan Travel Act, the island’s government would “continue to uphold the principles of mutual trust and mutual benefit to maintain close contact and communication with the US.”
President Donald J. Trump last Friday signed the law introduced by Ohio Republican Steve Chabot.
China protested the law. It said it violates US commitments not to restore direct official contacts with Taiwan that were severed when Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.