Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is erasing the guidelines that have restricted U.S. government contact with Taiwanese officials in the latest American repudiation of China’s claims to sovereignty over the island.

“The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing,” Pompeo said Saturday. “No more.”

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