Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen pledged that her government “will only grow more determined to engage with the world” in the face of China's threats. Tsai said that Taiwan would not be deterred by 'pressures of expanding authoritarianism.'
“This administration is committed to bringing Taiwan closer to the global community while also enabling the world to engage with Taiwan,” Tsai told reporters as she boarded a flight to New York. “And our determination to engage with the world will not be diminished by the pressures of expanding authoritarianism.”Tsai’s arrival in New York is one of two stops on American soil framed as “transits” through the United States in the context of her travel to Guatemala and Belize.
Tsai is scheduled to attend an event hosted by the Hudson Institute in New York on Thursday before continuing with her itinerary in Belize and Guatemala, two countries that have maintained diplomatic relations with Taiwan. After the conclusion of her itinerary in Central America, she is expected to meet McCarthy and other members of Congress at the Reagan library in California before returning to Taipei.
Chinese Communist officials have claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since their victory in the civil war that overthrew the nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek, who fled across the Taiwan Strait and established a military dictatorship in Taipei. That Kuomintang regime, which never ceased to call itself the Republic of China, gave way to a democratic system of governance that allowed Tsai’s center-left government to come to power.
Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping has pledged to bring Taiwan under Beijing’s authority by force if necessary. Such a prospect would give the communist regime control over an island that sits at the center of the so-called first island chain that links Japan to other U.S. allies across the Indo-Pacific. Then-President Jimmy Carter cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1979 to establish official relations with Beijing amid the Cold War, but the U.S.
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