There has been growing bipartisan support in Washington for a harder line toward China and improved ties with Taiwan. Photo: EPA
China /  Diplomacy

Taiwan put on US defence department list of ‘countries’ in latest move likely to goad China

  • The wording is an apparent break with Washington’s long-standing adherence to a one-China policy
  • The acting US defence secretary, in the report’s introduction, identifies the Chinese Communist Party as the architect of a vision for ‘repressive world order’
Topic |   Taiwan
Mark Magnier

Mark Magnier in Washington DC

Updated: 12:05am, 8 Jun, 2019

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There has been growing bipartisan support in Washington for a harder line toward China and improved ties with Taiwan. Photo: EPA
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Mark Magnier

Mark Magnier

Mark Magnier is a US correspondent based in Washington. Before joining the Post, he worked for the Wall Street Journal in China and for the Los Angeles Times in India, China and Japan. He’s covered the Chinese economy, China and India’s explosive rise and conflicts in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.