Fox News Digital spoke with Taiwanese policy experts in Taipei to hear about how the island's government and how China views former President Trump and President Biden.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – A Chinese government that is poised to attack Taiwan would be 'afraid' of former President Trump being elected to the White House again, a Taiwanese defense expert said. Dr. Ming-Shih Shen, director of the Institute for National Defense and Security Research’s national security division, told Fox News Digital that Beijing’s ruling Chinese Communist Party likely views President Biden’s policy toward China as more moderate than Trump’s.
He noted, however, that there was a significant expansion of U.S.-Taiwan relations under Trump. 'We…notice that it is during Trump, when he became president in the year 2016, the whole policy over time has experienced fundamental changes, as well as policy toward China, and actually for the better for Taiwan,' Lai said. 'It is also under Trump that the U.S. started to regularly sent ships through the Taiwan Strait, which helped to address the security issues here tremendously.
The U.S.-Taiwan partnership in that industry is viewed as critical to both governments, with Taiwan producing roughly 60% of the world’s semiconductors. Trump made those comments after the Biden administration reached an agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd to expand its operations into Arizona. Biden’s Commerce Department signed the $6.6 billion deal, which is expected to create over 25,000 new jobs across manufacturing and construction, this past April.
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