TAIPEI — Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te will visit three Pacific island nation allies starting at the end of this month in his first overseas trip since taking office, the presidential office said Friday.
Presidential spokesman Karen Kuo said Lai will visit the Marshall Islands, Palau and Tuvalu — the only Pacific island nations among Taiwan's 12 remaining allies — from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6.China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since 1949, but Beijing claims the island as part of its territory and has been pressuring countries to drop diplomatic ties with Taipei.
Tsai met then US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California in April 2023 during a Latin America trip, to which Beijing responded with military drills around the island.Tensions between China and Taiwan have escalated since Lai took office in May.Lai and Tsai both belong to the Democratic Progressive Party, but Lai has been more outspoken in his defense of the island's sovereignty, and Beijing calls him a 'separatist.
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