TAIPEI — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will spend four nights in the United States this month while visiting Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government said on Monday, angering China, which urged Washington not to allow her to visit. Protesters have for months agitated to remove President Jovenel Moise, a former businessman who took office in February 2017. Tsai’s time in the United States will be unusually long, as normally she spends just a night at a time on transit stops. She last went to the United States in March, stopping over in Hawaii at the end of a Pacific tour. Taiwan now has formal ties with only 17 countries, almost all small nations in Central America and the Pacific.

Source: National Post July 01, 2019 03:17 UTC