Taiwan's Lai Ching-te makes New York City stopover despite Chinese threats
Lai’s visit to the U.S. helps burnish his credentials in the lead-up to Taiwan’s January presidential election.
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Lai’s visit to the U.S. helps burnish his credentials in the lead-up to Taiwan’s January presidential election.
Taiwan's Vice President William Lai arrives in New York amidst criticism by China.
China underlines that it would sternly respond to Taiwanese Vice President William Lai making a stop in the United States on his way to Paraguay.
Taiwan's Vice President William Lai is visiting the United States on Sunday, officially to transit through it before traveling to Paraguay. China sees this stay as an attack on its claims of sovereignty on the island. China believes Taiwan is one of its provinces, which it has yet to reunify with the rest of its territory since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. It says it favours "peaceful" reunification with the territory, where some 23 million inhabitants are governed by a democratic system.
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