Calls to 'abandon' Taiwan not mainstream view in US
Recent calls urging Washington to ``abandon'' Taiwan to China are not a mainstream view and there is no need for the US to change its long-term policy of having good relations with China and Taiwan, a former senior US official said in Taipei yesterday.
Taiwan's interaction with China ``is unavoidable, given that the mainland has become the world's second-largest economy and also given its close proximity Taiwan,'' Ma said in an interview with the BBC's Rachel Harvey on its World News program Wednesday.