Televisions show a news broadcast of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 11. The Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwanese officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration. Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands sent a jubilant tweet on Monday, claiming to have made some history today. He had welcomed Taiwan s de facto ambassador into the U.S. Embassy for a meeting.
For the past four decades, it s been generally off-limits for U.S. ambassadors to invite Taiwanese officials into embassies. Ever since the United States switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei in 1979, America s relations with the government in Taiwan have been unofficial. To keep it that way, a complex and ever-changing set of rules has guided