CHINA-TAIWAN: TAIWAN PRESIDENT'S STOP OVER IN US

Three pro-Taiwan U.S. House representatives in California including Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, the committee’s Asia and Pacific subcommittee ranking member Brad Sherman and Congresswoman Judy Chu,  joined Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her stopover in Los Angeles. Tsai Ing-wen was escorted by motorcade to a Los Angeles hotel where more than 500 supporters held banners and placards reading “Good luck, Taiwan,” and “Hello Ms President.” Pro-China supporters were also present and had hired a small plane flying a banner reading “One China! Taiwan is part of China”. Later,  the Taiwan President headed to the Culture Centre of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in El Monte where she met approx 1,000 Taiwanese expatriates. Tsai Ing-wen said her first-ever talk at the premises of Taiwan’s representative office in the US was “a very important start” of a changeable policy. She did not elaborate. Tsai was scheduled to give a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Monday, the first ever made by any presidents from Taiwan during their transit stays. She was expected to meet some 'heavyweight' US officials before leaving for Paraguay in the evening. On the way back on August 18, she will stop over in Houston.
China had, predictably, protested and urged the US not to allow the stop over. 

(Comment: The transit stop-over was the by the Taiwan President after the U.S. Congress unanimously passed the Taiwan Travel Act early this year allowing US government officials at all levels, including cabinet-level national security officials, to travel to Taiwan and high-level officials of Taiwan to enter the U.S.)






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