{"id":34454,"date":"2023-08-22T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/?p=34454"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:32:38","slug":"taiwanese-vp-and-presidential-contender-visits-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/taiwanese-vp-and-presidential-contender-visits-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese VP and Presidential Contender Visits the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34454\" class=\"elementor elementor-34454\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-27c6d952 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"27c6d952\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5eaadab\" data-id=\"5eaadab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-cfb80b5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cfb80b5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-no-translation=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4fbc5a2d\" data-id=\"4fbc5a2d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24bf81a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"24bf81a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>What is going on?<\/h2><p><strong>William Lai <\/strong>(\u8cf4\u6e05\u5fb7), Taiwan\u2019s vice president and Democratic Progressive Party\u2019s candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/12\/world\/asia\/taiwan-us-china-lai-ching-te.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited<\/a><strong> New York<\/strong> during a <strong>stopover <\/strong>en route to <strong>Paraguay, <\/strong>where he attended Santiago Pe\u00f1a swearing-in ceremony. The visit was relatively low-profile \u2013 Lai met with representatives of the Taiwanese-American community and delivered a luncheon speech. During the return leg of the journey, he will also visit <strong>San Francisco,<\/strong> where he is due to meet with Laura Rosenberger, chair of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), a U.S. government-run non-profit that carries out Washington\u2019s unofficial relations with Taiwan. Even though Taipei and Washington both call transfers by Taiwanese officials\u2019 <strong>routine<\/strong>, Lai\u2019s presence in the U.S. attracted the <strong>ire <\/strong>of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) authorities.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><h2>What is the broader picture?<\/h2><p>Amid mounting tensions in U.S.-China and Taiwan-China relations, Beijing strongly opposes interactions between U.S. and Taiwanese officials, as it threatens to annex the island forcibly. Over the past three years, China intensified its gray zone activities around Taiwan. High-profile interactions between Taiwan and the U.S. serve as an excuse for the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) to launch <strong>military exercises<\/strong> in the vicinity of the island, which has been described as the deployment of <strong>psychological warfare<\/strong> against Taiwan. Coinciding with Lai\u2019s stopover in the U.S., China\u2019s Maritime Safety Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/cross-strait\/202308110019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported <\/a>that military exercises would take place off the coast of the eastern city of Ningbo &#8211; around 500km to the north of Taipei &#8211; for a period of three days. This is reminiscent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2023\/04\/11\/china-successfully-completes-taiwan-war-games-aimed-at-sealing-off-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>simulated blockade<\/strong><\/a> which China staged in April as an angry response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s (\u8521\u82f1\u6587) meeting U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during a California stopover following her travel to Central America. At the same time, the PLA&#8217;s response during Lai\u2019s transit was considerably more muted than in August 2022, when Beijing launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/china-taiwan-military-exercises-nancy-pelosi-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live-fire exercises<\/a> to condemn the Taiwan visit by then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><h2>Why does it matter?<\/h2><p>With almost five months left until the elections, William Lai currently leads as a presidential contender in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpof.org\/%e7%b2%be%e9%81%b8%e6%96%87%e7%ab%a0\/2023%e5%b9%b47%e6%9c%88%e3%80%8c%e6%94%bf%e9%bb%a8%e6%84%9f%e6%83%85%e3%80%81%e5%80%99%e9%81%b8%e4%ba%ba%e7%89%b9%e8%b3%aa%e8%88%872024%e7%b8%bd%e7%b5%b1%e5%a4%a7%e9%81%b8%e3%80%8d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public opinion polls<\/a>. While Lai previously called himself a \u201cpragmatic worker for <strong>Taiwanese independence<\/strong>,\u201d he is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2023\/08\/16\/2003804803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking<\/a> to convince not only voters at home but also the relevant stakeholders in Washington that he would be a steady pair of hands capable of maintaining the <strong>status quo in the Taiwan Strait<\/strong>. Therefore, the low profile of the visit might be read as an effort on behalf of Lai to demonstrate to Washington that he would steer clear of drastic changes in Taiwan\u2019s status if elected. The Chinese foreign ministry condemned the U.S. for allowing Lai to transfer through the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/202308\/t20230813_11126188.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserting <\/a>that \u201cLai Ching-te clings stubbornly to the separatist position for Taiwan independence. He is a troublemaker through and through.\u201d His electoral success may thus perpetuate the impasse in Taiwan-China relations, which commenced in 2016 when Tsai Ing-wen, also of the Democratic Progressive Party, became the island nation\u2019s president.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is going on? William Lai (\u8cf4\u6e05\u5fb7), Taiwan\u2019s vice president and Democratic Progressive Party\u2019s candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, visited New York during a stopover en route to Paraguay, where he attended Santiago Pe\u00f1a swearing-in ceremony. The visit was relatively low-profile \u2013 Lai met with representatives of the Taiwanese-American community and delivered a luncheon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-34454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-marcin-jerzewski"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taiwanese VP and Presidential Contender Visits the U.S. - European Values Center for Security Policy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/en\/taiwanese-vp-and-presidential-contender-visits-the-u-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taiwanese VP and Presidential Contender Visits the U.S. - European Values Center for Security Policy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is going on? 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