Taiwan’s ‘legacy’ in the Versailles Treaty still matters in US-China tensions, says diplomat

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— 9 Aug, 2020 By Emerson De-Yi Zhou TAIPEI – As trade war and the South China Sea tensions between Washington and Beijing are intensifying amid Covid-19, the “American betrayal” in 1919 at the Paris Conference in Versailles is still in the minds of Chinese leaders, said former U.S. diplomat Dr. Patrick Mendis in his keynote address at a roundtable discussion organized by the Embassy of St. Lucia in Taiwan. Prof. Patrick Mendis, left, speaking at the Roundtable discussion after Ambassador Edwin Laurent, right, welcomed other diplomatic envoys, trade representatives, and government officials at the Diplomatic Compound in Taipei (Photo...