Youngkin signed an executive order to create a Virginia-Taiwan trade office in Taipei by June 30, something the General Assembly stopped short of approving.
that she’d had “a pleasant & productive meeting” with Youngkin and his delegation. She thanked Virginia “for its support for Taiwan” and welcomed the trade office as a means to “further deepen our ties in economy & trade.”Youngkin, who will also visit Japan and Korea, is widely expected to antagonize China with the Taiwan portion of the trip, since China considers U.S. outreach to the self-governing island a provocation.
But experts differ on whether the move puts Virginia’s substantial trade with China at risk. Representatives at China’s embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Youngkin, who traveled with two spokeswomen, did not immediately respond for a request for comment.
“The relationship with the Chinese government is what it is. We have products and quantities of products … that they want and they need and they are buying, I think, kind of regardless,” he said. He noted that leaders of other states, from red Florida and Texas to blue California, have taken “harsher stances” against China than Virginia without suffering negative consequences in trade.
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