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US visit by Taiwan’s President: China imposes sanctions
High-level meeting: In the United States, Tsai Ing-wen met, among others, the Chairman of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. photo
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At the center of the punitive measures: US institutions that organized events with Tsai Ing-wen. In doing so, they supported Taiwan’s “separatist activities,” Beijing said.
China has imposed sanctions on US organizers who hosted events featuring Tsai Ing-wen in protest at Taiwan’s president’s visit to the US.
According to the State Department in Beijing, Ronald Reagan’s presidential library in Simi Valley, California, where a meeting between Tsai and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took place, will be fined. Sanctions were also imposed on the Hudson Institute and its officials. The think tank presented an award to Taiwan’s president. Tsai gave a speech at the ceremony in New York.
Both institutions have provided Taiwan’s president with “a platform and facilities for her separatist activities for Taiwan’s independence in the United States,” the State Department said. In doing so, they would have violated Beijing’s one-China doctrine and agreements with the United States. They would also have severely damaged China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
China rejects contacts from other countries to Taiwan
Universities, organizations and individuals in China will be banned from cooperation and other activities with both institutions in the United States, the release said.
During a trip to Central America, Taiwan’s president, like her predecessors, made private transit stopovers in the USA. China had protested and announced countermeasures. The Chinese leadership sees the democratic island republic only as part of the People’s Republic and is trying to isolate Taiwan internationally. All official contacts from other countries to Taipei are rejected.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs