United States and Taiwan Ink Trade Deal Despite Warnings from China

Taiwan and the United States will sign the first deal under a new trade talks framework.
The US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade looks to boost trade by streamlining customs checks, improving regulatory procedures, and establishing anticorruption measures.
The pact is "intended to strengthen and deepen the economic and trade relationship" between both sides.
China warned against signing any pact "with connotations of sovereignty or of an official nature with China's Taiwan region."
Taiwan's government has described the deal as "the most comprehensive" trade agreement signed with Washington since 1979.