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Opinion

Taiwan risks getting trumped in trade war

In the firing line of US-China conflict, island economy must diversify

| Taiwan
Is Taiwan in for more storms?   © Reuters

Few world leaders seemed happier about Donald Trump's shock election than Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen.

In December 2016, a month before he assumed office, Trump took an unprecedented phone call from President Tsai, enraging a China that views her democracy as a renegade province and works to isolate it.

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