White House Cut Taiwanese Minister’s Video Feed at Democracy Summit to Protect China
The White House cut a video feed of a Taiwanese minister during President Biden’s Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her presentation depicted Taiwan in a different color from China, which officials worried would be at odds with the United States’ “one-China” policy, according to a new report.
Taiwanese digital minister Audrey Tang’s video was cut after it showed the map for about a minute because the White House was concerned that differentiating Taiwan and China on a map in a U.S.-hosted conference could run afoul of Washington’s “one-China”...