BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s state-run media called for retaliation after the Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwan officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, one of its biggest moves yet to reshape U.S. ties with the Asian democracy.
US lifts decades-old rules on contacts with Taiwan, Chinese state media calls for retaliation
The Global Times newspaper warned that US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s moves were pushing the world’s biggest countries toward conflict.
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China’s state-run media called for retaliation after the Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwan officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, one of its biggest moves yet to reshape U.S. ties with the Asian democracy.
The Communist Party-backed Global Times warned that Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s moves were pushing the world’s biggest countries toward conflict. Hu Xijin, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, said on Weibo China had a “precious window of opportunity for mainland China to teach a heavy lesson to the ‘Taiwan independence’ forces” and re-establish “st