WASHINGTON - The US must maintain its close ties with Taiwan and deter China from forcefully intervening in the self-governing island, and it can do so without altering the status quo in US-China relations, according to two lawmakers who recently returned from a trip to Taiwan.
"We felt it was important to reinforce the message that despite America's - or perhaps because of - America's One China policy that we nevertheless wanted to maintain the status quo in Taiwan and deter if possible any kind of forceful intervention that the PRC would have with Taiwan," Mr Beyer said on Bloomberg Television's"Balance of Power with David Westin."
On their two-day trip to Taiwan earlier this month, Mr Beyer and the other lawmakers met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu and members of the local parliament.