Pompeo: ‘Taiwan Has Not Been a Part of China’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on a reporter while speaking about the counting of votes in the US election during a briefing, at the State Department in Washington, on Nov. 10. 2020. Jacquelyn Martin / Pool / AFP via Getty Images

BEIJING/TAIPEI—Speaking in a U.S. radio interview on Thursday, Pompeo said: “Taiwan has not been a part of China.”

“That was recognized with the work that the Reagan administration did to lay out the policies that the United States has adhered to now for three-and-a-half decades,” he said.