Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent March 2-4 in Taiwan during which he called on the U.S. to recognize the Chinese island’s independence in an obvious provocation to the People’s Republic of China which considers Taiwan to be one of its provinces—not a nation. Recall that in January 2021, the Chinese government sanctioned Pompeo for having “planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves which have gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs, undermined China’s interests, offended the Chinese people, and seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations.” He was one of 28 former Trump administration officials to be sanctioned.
In a speech to a think tank this morning Pompeo proclaimed that, “the United States government should immediately take necessary and long overdue steps to do the right and obvious thing: that is to offer the Republic of China, Taiwan, America’s diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country. While the United States should continue to engage with the People’s Republic of China as a sovereign government, America’s diplomatic recognition of the 23 million freedom-loving Taiwanese people and its legal, democratically-elected government can no longer be ignored, avoided, or treated as secondary,” Reuters reported him as saying.
