WASHINGTON: The United States and Taiwan signed a trade deal Thursday (Friday in Manila) aimed at deepening economic relations between both sides — in a move that has sparked a warning from Beijing.

The US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade looks to boost trade by streamlining customs checks, improving regulatory procedures, and establishing anticorruption measures between the United States and the self-governing island of Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory.

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