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US reaffirms defense support to Taiwan during unofficial visit 2 minutes read
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Beijing, Apr 15 (EFE).- Former United States senator Chris Dodd said on Thursday in a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen that US President Joe Biden’s government would help the island expand its “international space” and support its “investments in self-defense.”
“You will find the Biden administration, Madam President, to be a reliable, trusted friend,” Dodd told Tsai in Taipei during his unofficial visit to the country along with two other former US officials.
In her speech, the Taiwanese president referred to recent incursions by Chinese warplanes and other military maneuvers that Beijing launched on Thursday as a reaction to the US visit.
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US reaffirms defense support to Taiwan during unofficial visit
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (C-R) and former US Senator Chris Dodd (C-L) attend a meeting at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan, 15 April 2021. EFE-EPA/ANN WANG / POOL
Former US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (L) speaks at a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (R) at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan, 15 April 2021. EFE-EPA/ANN WANG / POOL
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a meeting with former US Senator Chris Dodd (L) and the US delegation at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan, 15 April 2021. EFE-EPA/ANN WANG / POOL
Former United States senator Chris Dodd said on Thursday in a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen that US President Joe Biden s government would help the island expand its international space and support its investments in self-defense.
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Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan wouldn’t commit to continuing to fund an annual security forum in Halifax that has become embroiled in a controversy over an award it reportedly planned to give to the President of Taiwan.
The Halifax International Security Forum has been staging a conference every fall since 2009 when it was established by the Conservative government’s then-defence minister Peter MacKay. It brings together defence and foreign policy-minded politicians, analysts and pundits from Canada, the United States, Europe and beyond. It’s been called the “Davos of international security” and gets about 50 per cent of its budget from the federal government, a traditio