Trump, in Call for Taiwan To Pay for Its Defense, Ruffles Feathers in the Island Democracy, Though It Voices Understanding

Communists will try for intimidation, as they have in the past.

AP/Chiang Ying-ying, file
Soldiers lower the national flag at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall at Taipei, Taiwan, July 30, 2022. AP/Chiang Ying-ying, file

President Trump has ruffled feathers on the independent island province of Taiwan by declaring that “Taiwan should pay us for defense.”

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