The Foreign Secretary made the surprising remarks while giving evidence to a Commons committee yesterday. Britain currently has no defence or diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
Taiwan’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer has started building a computer-chip factory in Arizona and is hiring U.S. engineers and sending them to Taiwan for training, but the pace of construction will depend on Congress approving federal subsidies.
China's '17+1 initiative' was severely impacted following the ongoing war in Ukraine, as most of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have started to become wary of foreign powers, including China.