Election frontrunner Lai Ching-te’s transits from Paraguay were more muted than Tsai’s April trip
China has launched military exercises around Taiwan, lashing out against the country’s vice-president and election frontrunner Lai Ching-te for visiting the US this week.
Lai made brief transit stops in New York and San Francisco on his way to and from the inauguration of the new president of Paraguay, one ofHis only public appearances during the US stopovers were short speeches at two banquets with overseas Taiwanese communities, making Lai’s trip the first in many years by a president or vice-president that was more muted than the previous one.
“Everything he does is abundant proof that he is a hundred per cent ‘Taiwan independence’ worker, a troublemaker through and through, who will only push Taiwan towards a dangerous situation of war,” the statement said. In recent years, Washington had given Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen increasingly generous treatment, allowing her to make public addresses to US audiences and occasionally stay more than one night. On her last visit in April, TsaiBeijing, which claims Taiwan as its territory and has threatened to seize it by force, has expressed, who is leading the polls ahead of presidential elections next January.
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