Taiwan’s president is going ahead with plans to make two stops in the
U.S. next month en route to Central America—hitting both San Francisco
and Houston on the way. The visit promises to anger China, which has
already demanded that Washington prohibit President Tsai Ing-wen and her
delegation from landing stateside entirely. The Houston visit will be
on Jan. 7, before Tsai goes to San Francisco on Jan 13.
According to an official schedule, she travels next to Honduras,
Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Beijing has repeatedly asked the
U.S. to prevent Tsai's trip through the U.S., in order to avoid “sending
the wrong signal to Taiwanese independence forces.” President-elect
Donald Trump last month broke decades of diplomatic protocol, speaking
on the phone with Tsai after his election victory. It was believed to be
the first contact between a president-elect in the U.S. and the leader
of Taiwan since 1979. Shortly afterward, China’s foreign ministry lodged
an official diplomatic complaint with the U.S. over the talk. |
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