Taiwanese president to go on ‘democracy mission’ to Caribbean allies, with stops in the United States
- Tsai Ing-wen expected to use American stopovers to cement partnership with the United States, observer says
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will visit four Caribbean allies next week, a trip that will include four days in transit in the United States.
Tsai will leave on July 11 for a 12-day visit in Haiti, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and St Lucia, stopping in two US cities for two nights each on her way to Haiti and back from St Lucia.
“The trip is aimed at actively promoting freedom and democracy in the region as the four Caribbean allies as well as the US that the president is going to visit and stop over in are like-minded countries which treasure freedom and democracy,” Taiwanese deputy foreign minister Miguel Tsao Li-jey said in Taipei on Monday.
Tsao said Tsai would also use the trip to discuss cooperation plans with the four allies and ways to help them develop.
He declined to name the American stopover cities, saying the US portion of the trip was still under discussion with the US.
But Taiwanese news outlets reported that Tsai was likely to stop in New York and Denver.