Taiwan "should pay" the USA for defense, thinks the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
We are not different from an insurance company. Taiwan gives us nothing, says Trump in an interview with Bloomberg.
The statement raises questions about how the relationship between the two countries will look like if Trump is re-elected as president this fall.
Despite Washington not diplomatically recognizing Taiwan as independent from China, the two countries are cooperation partners and the USA is a major arms supplier to Taiwan.
