Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the Biden administration to diplomatically recognize Taiwan as a free and sovereign country during a visit to Taiwan on Friday. “It is my view that the US 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 told a forum held by the Prospect Foundation, a Taipei-based non-partisan think tank. “This isn’t about Taiwan’s future independence, it’s about recognizing an unmistakabl…