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Eliot Engel: “It really just irritates me that we make a decision like this, which has an adverse impact on our friend Taiwan.”

On the recordMarch 13, 2014
It really just irritates me that we make a decision like this, which has an adverse impact on our friend Taiwan.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel is frustrated by U.S. decisions affecting Taiwan to placate Beijing.

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