Pompeo congratulates Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen on her second term

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the highest-level US official to offer congratulations to Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen ahead of her inauguration to her second term as the island’s first female leader – expected to trigger a furious reaction from Beijing.Pompeo’s remarks were read aloud on Wednesday morning ahead of Tsai’s inaugural speech, which is expected to stress the need for “peace, equality, democracy, and dialogue” as the basis of her administration’s cross-strait policy…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3085190/pompeo-congratulates-taiwans-tsai-ing-wen-her-second-term