US Ends Curbs On Official American Contacts With Taiwan, Says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Mike Pompeo mentioned the US has ended the decades-old restrictions. (File) Washington: The USA is ending decades-old restrictions governing official contacts with Taiwan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned in an announcement Saturday. He mentioned the "advanced inside restrictions" regulating contacts by diplomats, service members and others had been imposed "in an try and appease the Communist regime in Beijing," including, "No extra." The declaration — which comes within the remaining two weeks of the Trump administration — appears sure to infuriate China, which sees Taiwan as its personal territory and has labored to maintain it remoted on the world…