{"id":30547,"date":"2021-01-09T18:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30547"},"modified":"2021-01-09T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T02:19:16","slug":"lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30547","title":{"rendered":"Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"module featured-content page-header \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"featured-content__copy\">\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p class=\"article-meta doctype-meta\">PRESS STATEMENT<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta__author-bureau\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/michael-r-pompeo\/\">MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-meta__publish-date\">JANUARY 9, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and reliable partner of the United States, and yet for several decades the State Department has created complex internal restrictions to regulate our diplomats, servicemembers, and other officials\u2019 interactions with their Taiwanese counterparts. The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing. No more.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions.\u00a0 Executive branch agencies should consider all \u201ccontact guidelines\u201d regarding relations with Taiwan previously issued by the Department of State under authorities delegated to the Secretary of State to be null and void.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, any and all sections of the Foreign Affairs Manual or Foreign Affairs Handbook that convey authorities or otherwise purport to regulate executive branch engagement with Taiwan via any entity other than the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) are also hereby voided. The executive branch\u2018s relations with Taiwan are to be handled by the non-profit AIT, as stipulated in the Taiwan Relations Act.<\/p>\n<p>The United States government maintains relationships with unofficial partners around the world, and Taiwan is no exception. Our two democracies share common values of individual freedom, the rule of law, and a respect for human dignity. Today\u2019s statement recognizes that the U.S.-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS STATEMENT MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30548,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547\/revisions\/30548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}