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Lawrence Chung

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen sought further arms support from the United States on Tuesday as tensions mount between the island and the mainland.
“Taiwan hopes to have more intensive negotiations and discussions with the United States regarding US arms sales to Taiwan,” Tsai said in a meeting with visiting US Senator Cory Gardner at her office in Taipei.
She said the US sale of defensive arms to Taiwan over the years had helped to maintain cross-strait peace and stability and benefited US allies in the region.
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Beijing, which sees the island as a breakaway province subject to eventual union, stepped up its pressure – including military intimidation – on Tsai shortly after she became president in May last year and refused to accept the 1992 consensus on “one China”.
Gardner, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, told Tsai he hoped discussion of the arms sales agenda could be institutionalised between Taipei and Washington, Tsai’s office said in a statement.
Taiwan touts benefits to US of its weapons purchases
Gardner, who recently joined a group of senators in proposing the Taiwan Travel Act, was quoted as saying that he would promote the importance of the Taiwan Relations Act and the need for exchange visits by senior officials from the US and Taiwan.
The Taiwan Relations Act was enacted in 1979 after Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing as part of US efforts to continue informal ties with the island and help it ward off possible attack from the mainland by supplying defensive arms.
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Beijing in June last year suspended talks and exchanges with Taiwan that were active when Ma Ying-jeou of the mainland-friendly Kuomintang was president from 2008 to 2016. It said the consensus was the sole political basis for the two sides to resume talks and exchanges. It has also held military drills and sent warplanes and submarines near Taiwan.
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The consensus allows the two sides to continue talks and exchanges as long as they agree that there is only one China, though each can have its interpretation of what that China stands for.
Taiwan is hoping Washington will honour a US$1 billion arms deal reached by US President Donald Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama. But Trump has yet to affirm the deal and has said he does not want to create difficulties for his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, who is helping to tackle the North Korea issue.


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Taiwanese leader tells Cory Gardner the supply of weapons helps maintain peace and stability