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10 Apr 2021

“The 'Taiwan card' is a good card for the US so it will fully take advantage of the island of Taiwan to serve its own strategic interests. The US will improve its relations with Taiwan as much as possible, but it will never break the ceiling to regard the island as a 'country'. The US' new guidelines are just a move to provoke the Chinese mainland and further enchant the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to make it feel good. The new guidelines cannot be seen as a "turning point" in US relations with Taiwan. Only when the US completely tears its face with the Chinese mainland and transforms its relationship with the island of Taiwan from an unofficial relationship to an official one, can it be called a structural change - now it is just an act of harassment.”

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Professor at the Taipei-based "National Taiwan University" and a member of Taiwan's opposition party KMT
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