Taiwan is confident of the US support under Trump’s leadership, the minister says Politics News

Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan said of Iman to support the United States, as the Taiwanese Supreme official, despite the widespread anxiety on the island that US President Donald Trump can use democracy in East Asia as a bargaining in its dealings with China.

“Taiwan and the United States have a very strong and composed relationship, and Taiwan has cross -supported support from the American conference,” lead Minister of Green Affairs Cyu Cheng said in an exclusive interview with Al -Jazeera.

Unlike the United States and China, “The United States and Taiwan have unpopularly close relations,” said Cheo, whose portfolio covers the cabinet level Taiwan relations with China on the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.

However, Cheo said it was still too early to assess the effect of the Trump administration’s second administration completely.

He said through the translator translator: “The Taiwan government will continue to monitor the Trump administration because it was less than three months.”

“The Taiwan government has a very fixed position in protecting our sovereignty, freedom and democracy.”

Trump occupied the headlines in Taiwan in 2016 when before a congratulatory phone call from President Taiwan Tsai Enge Win, which led to a long -term agreement in which we presidents are not communicated directly.

Relations between the United States and Taiwan continued to deepen the first period of Trump and under former US President Joe Biden, with many delegations of Democratic and Republican legislators who are visiting the island in recent years.

Since his return to the White House, Trump has launched a series of broad aspects on the island, although US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is still a strong supporter in Taiwan.

He accused the American president in a different way of Taiwan of stealing the American chips industry, and said that Taipei should pay the price of its own defense, and threatened the manufacturer of the Great Taiwanese Taiwanese towers (TSMC) with a “100 percent tax” if it does not expand manufacturing in the United States.

Trump Taiwan also struck a 32 percent “mutual” tariff – which was temporarily arrested until July – and the current tariff and aluminum exports expanded on its exports, among other initiatives.

Like most countries, the United States does not have official diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory.

But Washington is committed to supporting the island’s defense under the 1979 law, although the legislation does not specify a commitment to interfere directly in a conflict.

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While Taipei follows the waiting and vision approach, a speech and politics “America first” sparked anxiety among many Taiwanese that he could abandon Taiwan to win concessions in commercial talks with China.

In a survey published by the Taiwanese Public opinion Foundation in March, only 39.2 percent of the respondents said they believed that the United States will send the forces to defend Taiwan, a decrease from 65 percent in 2021.

Despite these concerns, Cheo said he believed Washington will never accept an “unreasonable request” from Beijing to change the conditions of its relationship with Taiwan.

China has pledged to unify Taiwan with the Chinese mainland, by force if necessary, although the ruling Communist Party did not control the island directly.

Cheo said that Taiwan has a lot for its progress to the United States, from its strategic location in the first defense strategy in Washington on the island, which aims to verify Chinese expansion in the Pacific Ocean, to its location as the first world chips maker.

“We believe that we can make it clear to the American people and to American people that Taiwan is a very good partner, and we cannot be dispensed with,” said Cheo.

Cheo’s portfolio at the cabinet level supervised the planning and implementation of Taiwan’s policy across the strait, although Beijing was officially unexpected with Taipei since the Progressive Democratic Party took power in 2016.

Beijing is considered DPP and has increased military, economic and diplomatic pressure on the island over the past nine years.

“United Front” tactics

Cheo said that the Taiwan government is still trying to communicate with Beijing through official channels, as well as communication through brokers from the business world, the non -profit sector and academic circles.

However, Cheo criticized China Etisalat with the opposition Kuinang (KMT), which he described as part of the Beijing Brejing tactics, referee and the “United Front” used against Taiwan.

The term “United Front” refers to both the official administration of the Chinese Communist Party and the activities carried out by the party members to promote the CCP agenda – including persuading the 23.4 million citizens of Taiwan that unavoidable and desirable unification with China, although the polling shows most Taiwanese in favor of the current situation of independence in reality.

“We are constantly facing the United Mountain Tactics, infiltration and division in the Taiwanese society. They are everywhere.”

The Taiwanese National Security Office was sued 64 people on charges of espionage in 2024 – in the first place active members of the army and old warriors – from 48 in 2023 and 10 in 2022.

Qio said that other threats are immediately clear, such as escalating Chinese military training and maneuvers near Taiwan during the past five years.

China said that China launched more than 5,000 military flights towards Taiwan in 2024 alone, including about 3000 trips that crossed the “medium line” of the Taiwan Strait – an informal border that divides the strategic waterway between China and Taiwan.

Beijing also sent more than 2,500 warships towards Taiwan, as some of its adjacent waters entered, referring to the area adjacent to the regional sea and extending with a maximum of 24 nautical miles (44 km) from the beach.

Cheo said he was more worried about the driving style of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Sometimes Shi, who spends an unprecedented third term after eliminating the limits of duration in 2018, is sometimes seen as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zaidong, the founder of modern China.

“The eleventh regime is a new type of tyranny. It has incited fanatic nationalism, and for this reason we see military domination and the diplomat of the wolf warrior.”

“China is currently the mainland at the present time is not a very rational party in making decisions, and this nationalism poses a major threat to its neighboring countries.”

“If you ask me what matters to me more, I would like to say that it is the enemy of the eleventh system,” he said.