US breaks pledge by allowing Tsai's transit

It's highly provocative and inconsistent with the one-China policy for the US administration to allow Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen to transit through the US on her way to the Central American countries of Guatemala and Belize. Tsai's scheduled meeting with House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles is even more provocative, except it's better than former House speaker Nancy Pelosi's reckless visit to Taiwan in August 2022.

We saw the one-China policy being eroded by the Barack Obama administration with its so-called pivot to Asia strategy, which in my opinion was really a pivot against China. That policy is continuing under the Joe Biden administration. Biden was the US vice-president during the Obama administration, for which many of his top foreign affairs and defense officials also worked. So we're seeing a continuation of the Obama administration's policy against China.

This should not have been the case between our two countries. We should pursue the one-China policy going back to the times of former president Richard Nixon and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and the Shanghai Communique. It's very unfortunate that the US is not seriously adhering to the Shanghai Communique.