The statement came a day after a phone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, during which Xi allegedly linked Taiwan's "return to China" to the postwar international order, as reported by The Taipei Times.
The newly elected Chairperson of Taiwan's opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), Cheng Li-wun, vowed to lead the party in defending democracy, revitalising the economy, and pursuing long-term peace across the Taiwan Strait during what she described as Taiwan's most challenging period, Focus Tai
Lai expressed these thoughts during the opening ceremony of the Overseas Community Affairs Council Conference in Taipei following the election of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker Cheng Li-wun as KMT chairwoman. Cheng advocates for closer relations with Beijing.
Washington and Beijing separately announced late Saturday that Sullivan and China's top diplomat Wang, who is also a Chinese Communist Party politburo member and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission, had met in Bangkok on Friday and Saturday.
The US congratulated Taiwanese President-elect Lai Ching-te on his victory in Saturday's elections, vowing to cooperate and work closely with the island nation.