US Cabinet Member Meets Taiwan President
A US cabinet member met Taiwan’s president earlier today
The move has angered China and increased tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Health and human services secretary, Alex Azar, is the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.
Taiwan is, to all intents and purposes, an independent state, but china regards it as a breakaway province.
China urged the US to respect what it called its one China principle.
