Speaking during a visit Friday to Taipei, Pence said China’s annexation of the island would impact global trade, technology and nuclear proliferation. “The fall of Taiwan would likely spark a ...

On a visit to the territory, he calls for China to release imprisoned publisher Jimmy Lai ...

The former vice president called on Donald Trump to renew his pledge to support Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.

It was the first Trump administration that made tough-on-China policies go mainstream, according to Pence. "I am convinced that our administration changed the national consensus on China," he said.

Pence said during Trump’s first term, he and the president “changed the national consensus on China in the United States.” “Now there is a broad and bipartisan agreement in our nation’s ...