President Tsai Ing-wen is to visit several countries in the Caribbean later this month during a visit that will also include several United States cities.
Taiwan’s Central New Agency (CAN) said that she will visit St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and St. Kitts-Nevis, the handful of Caribbean countries that have maintained diplomatic relations with Taipei in preference to China which insists on a “one China” policy.
Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province that could be reunited by force, if necessary.
The exact dates for the visit to the Caribbean have not yet been disclosed, but the CAN said that her visit to the region and the United States would last for 10 days.
In May, Taiwan’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Jaushieh Joseph Wu, visited St. Vincent and the
“For a woman to become president in a country where the politics is rough and tough, the competitive politics, like Taiwan, is a remarkable story,” Gonsalves said of Tsai, who became the first woman to head a government in that country.
She will become the third president of Taiwan to visit St. Vincent and the Grenadines following visits s by Chen Shui-bian in 2005 and Ma Ying-jeou in 2013.
