Taiwan leader plans low-profile US transit
TAIPEI, July 29, 2013 (AFP) Taiwan's President Ma Yingjeou will transit New York on his trip to Paraguay and the Caribbean next month, but will keep the stopover low-profile to avoid upsetting China, officials said Monday.
Ma, who initiated the island's detente with former bitter rival China, will depart on August 11 for his seventh overseas visit since taking office in 2008, vice-foreign minister Simon Shen-yeaw Ko told a press conference.
Like his predecessor Chen Shui-bian of the China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party during trips to Latin America and the Caribbean, Ma will make a transit stop in New
Like his predecessor Chen Shui-bian of the China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party during trips to Latin America
York. But unlike Chen who touted the US stopovers as “diplomatic triumphs” since Taiwan and the United States do not have diplomatic ties, Ma has tried to keep them low-profile.