By Peng Wan-hsin / Staff reporterUS Representative Steve Chabot in an opinion piece on Friday called for the US Congress to rethink support for the “one China” policy. This principle underpins Xi’s hyperbolic assertions that reunification is ‘inevitable’ and that ‘no one and no force can change the fact that Taiwan is part of China, and the historical and legal fact that both sides of the strait belong to one China.’ Xi needs to let go of this way of thinking,” Chabot said. “China’s increasing authoritarianism has made reunification less and less inevitable, especially since Taiwan has consolidated its democracy,” he said. In a statement released on Friday, Mike Kuo (郭正光), president of the Washington-based Formosan Association for Public Affairs, said his group fully agreed with the article. “It is time that the US government proactively challenges the one China policy and rethinks support for that policy,” the statement said.

Source: Taipei Times January 12, 2019 16:01 UTC