US should recognise Taiwan, former top diplomat Pompeo says

The United States should formally recognise Taiwan as a country, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Friday during a speech in Taipei.

"The United States government should immediately take necessary and long overdue steps to do the right and obvious thing: that is to offer the Republic of China, Taiwan, America's diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country," Pompeo said in a speech organised by a Taiwan think-tank.