Taipei, July 1: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen is scheduled next month to pay an official visit to the United States of America (USA) while addressing Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government reported on Monday, a move likely to anger China – considers Taiwan its renegade province.
According to Reuters news reports, Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister Miguel also stated the president is slated to spend two nights in the US each way, during her visit to St Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Nevis, St Kitts, and St Lucia scheduled from July 11 to 22.
Details over the US part of her trip were still pending with the US authorities, Miguel said.
The state-run Central News Agency has reported the president was likely to transit in Denver and New York.
Tsia, who has been struggling re-election in January and reiterating calls for international support in order to defend the island’s democracy in the face of China’s threats, has visited Washington in March.
Taiwan has its formal ties with 17 nations now – almost all the small countries in the Pacific and Central America.
Tsai has never accepted the “1992 consensus” and said she will never do so as it is equivalent in seriousness to the “one China, two systems” solution conceived by China to bring Taiwan under China and its control.
She further said Taiwan will never accept the formula of “one China, two systems” and said, “Taiwan will never accept the ‘one China, two systems’ formula, and the vast majority of Taiwan’s people are firmly opposed to the approach designed by Beijing.”
The “1992 consensus” was an agreement reached in 1992 between Chinese communist officials and then Kuomintang (KMT) government of Taiwan, where both sides of the Taiwan Strait would acknowledge that there is only “one China” with both sides free interpreting what “China” means.
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