Brushing off Beijing, Biden official commits with Taiwan to trade ties

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, a member of Biden's cabinet, spoke to minister without portfolio John Deng on "the importance of the US-Taiwan trade and investment relationship," a US statement said.

Tai's talks mark the highest-level direct engagement between Taiwan and the Biden administration. It comes after three senators on Sunday visited Taipei where they offered 750,000 coronavirus vaccine doses and, unusually, arrived in a US military aircraft. Beijing considers the self-governing democracy to be a territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.President Tsai Ing-wen has stressed Taiwan's separate identity after her predecessor entered into a major trade deal with mainland China.

Deng, the minister in charge of talks, said in Thursday's talks that "Taiwan has fully demonstrated its determination to push for internationalization and to deepen bilateral trade and economic ties with the US by revising the ractopamine residue level in pork last August." The US-Taiwan Business Council, in an editorial published in December, said the island would be an ideal partner for Biden as it already has high standards on issues his administration has listed as priorities -- environmental protection, labor and intellectual property rights.

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