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US signals a sea change on Taiwan 4 decades after severing ties

Trump's signing of travel bill pleases Taipei and angers Beijing

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, left, at an event held by the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei on March 21.   © Reuters

TAIPEI -- Relations between the U.S. and Taiwan, severed diplomatically about 40 years ago, are arriving at a turning point.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act, which allows high-ranking officials to meet with their Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, into law on March 16. Already having passed Congress, the bill would have automatically gone into effect past that day even if Trump had not signed it.

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