Taiwanese special envoy to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), People First Party Chairman James Soong speaks during a news conference in Taipei. Thomson Reuters
South China Morning Post/Reuters: Taiwan tells US it does not want to cause trouble in Taiwan Strait
Envoy says he had good exchanges with US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on sidelines of Apec summit in Da Nang
Taiwan has assured the United States it has no intention of causing trouble in the Taiwan Strait, the self-ruled island’s envoy to a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders said on Monday.
The comments by James Soong Chu-yu came after he said in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang on the weekend that he had good exchanges with both US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during informal moments between summit events.
“We don’t want to create trouble in the Taiwan Strait, and lead the US, China and Japan, and all observers, to think we are a troublemaker. The whole world doesn’t hope for Taiwan to be a troublemaker,” Soong said in response to a question on his interactions with Trump and Tillerson.
“We hope to use peaceful means to solve relevant problems.”
Soong also said he had a “natural interaction” with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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