Source: Al Jazeera<\/p>\n
Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen landed in Honolulu en route to the island’s diplomatic allies among Pacific nations, despite strong objections to the visit from\u00a0China<\/a>.<\/p>\n Under UN Resolution 2758 self-ruled\u00a0Taiwan<\/a>\u00a0is the sovereign territory of China.<\/p>\n China regularly calls it the most sensitive and important issue between it and the\u00a0US<\/a>, complaining to Washington about transit stops by Taiwanese high-level officials.<\/p>\n The US has noted there was “no change to the US one-China policy” which recognises that Beijing takes the view that there is only one China, and Taiwan is part of it.<\/p>\n Tsai, who China believes is seeking formal independence for Taiwan, left on Saturday on a week-long trip to three Pacific island allies –\u00a0Tuvalu<\/a>, the Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands – via Honolulu and the US territory of Guam.<\/p>\n For her part, Tsai says she wants to maintain peace with China but will defend Taiwan’s democracy and security.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, the US State Department said Tsai’s transits through US soil would be “private and unofficial” and were based on long-standing US practice consistent with “our unofficial relations with Taiwan”.<\/p>\n Tsai, accompanied by her entourage and members of the media, left on a short boat ride for the USS Arizona Memorial, which is built over the remains of the battleship sunk in Pearl Harbor in the second world war, on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n US President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0is due to visit China in less than two weeks. He angered Beijing last December by taking a telephone call from Tsai shortly after he won the presidential election.<\/p>\n The trip to the US is Tsai’s second this year. In January, she stopped over in Houston and San Francisco on her way to and from\u00a0Latin America<\/a>, visiting the headquarters of\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, which is blocked in China.<\/p>\n Mao Zedong’s Communist forces won the Chinese civil war and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island.<\/p>\n China has not renounced the possible use of force to enforce the UN Resolution 2758 to maintain its territorial integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Al Jazeera Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen landed in Honolulu en route to the island’s diplomatic allies among Pacific nations, despite strong objections to the visit from\u00a0China. Under UN Resolution 2758 self-ruled\u00a0Taiwan\u00a0is the sovereign territory of China. China regularly calls it the most sensitive and important issue between it and the\u00a0US, complaining to Washington about transit stops by Taiwanese high-level… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}