A senior British lawmaker said her delegation had discussed defense cooperation with Taiwan during a visit this week to the Chinese-claimed island, that Beijing has condemned as “gross interference.”
President Tsai Ing-wen, Alicia Kearns, chair of the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said the focus of their meetings was how to maintain peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and how can Britain play a role as a fellow democracy
Britain, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties with democratically governed Taiwan but has stepped up its support for the island in the face of a rising military threat from China, as have other Western nations.
