The foreign ministry on Friday welcomed a new initiative by US lawmakers to promote bilateral exchanges between the US and Taiwan.
The Taiwan Travel Act of 2016 was proposed by three members of Congress on Thursday. The act aims to ease restrictions on entering the US for senior officials from Taiwan and to promote more exchanges between the two nations on all levels.
The act says all senior Taiwanese officials should be allowed to enter the United States and its embassies around the world. They should also be allowed to meet with their counterparts in key ministries, including the Department of State and Department of Defense.
If passed, the act would effectively remove all restrictions on high-level political exchanges between US and Taiwan, including the current ban on meetings between the presidents of the two nations.