DPP creating risky situation colluding with US

Supposedly intended to develop concrete ways to deepen their economic and trade relationship, advance mutual trade priorities based on shared values, the "United States-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade" was launched at the end of last week.

Rather than a means for promoting innovation and inclusive economic growth for the workers and businesses of the two sides, it is instead "the latest evidence of the US voiding and hollowing out the one-China principle," as Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.

A framework for negotiations between Washington and Taipei on closer trade ties, it represents a provocative break from the previous tacit understanding between the Chinese and US governments on the ways the latter handles its relations with Taiwan.