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PublishedJan 9, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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TAIPEI • The US ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft will visit Taiwan next week for meetings with senior leaders, Taiwan s government and the US mission to the UN said, prompting China to warn that they were playing with fire.
China said on Thursday that the United States will pay a heavy price for its wrongdoing, after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington may sanction those involved in the recent Hong Kong arrests and that its UN ambassador would visit Taiwan.
China's permanent mission to the United Nations on Thursday expressed China's strong opposition to a planned Taiwan trip by a top-level American official by stressing that the move violated the one-China policy, which underpins bilateral relations.
Craft will become the latest – and last – high-ranking Trump administration official to visit Taiwan.
January 08, 2021
Ambassador Kelly Craft delivers remarks at a U.N. Security Council Stakeout on Syria, Oct. 16, 2019.
Credit: Flickr/ US Mission to the United Nations
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The Trump administration will leave office on January 20, but not before offering one more parting gift to Taiwan: a visit by the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft.
The announcement was appended to a statement from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the mass arrests in Hong Kong. After condemning the arrests as an outrage and demanding the release of the pro-democracy figures, Pompeo segued to Taiwan: