China said Monday that the U.S. has apologized after Beijing officially protested a White House statement incorrectly calling Xi Jinping the president of the "Republic of China".
Xi is the president of the People's Republic of China, while the Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province awaiting reunification.
"The U.S. side has expressed that they are sorry for this technical error and they have made a correction," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said of the misidentification during a regular news briefing Monday.
The White House made the error in an official readout of a meeting between U.S. President Trump and Xi during the G20 summit in Hamburg last week.
Ties between China and the U.S. have suffered because of the American relationship with Taiwan, particularly after President Trump spoke on the phone with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in a break from protocol shortly after his election to the White House.
Since 1979, the United States has recognized China's official position that Taiwan is part of China. But Washington remains one of Taiwan's most powerful allies despite the two countries not having official diplomatic relations.
The U.S. government recently approved $1.42 billion in arms sales to the island.
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