The Straits Times
Date: January 4, 2020

TAIPEI • Taiwan's Vice-President-elect William Lai will go to this week's high-profile National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, he said yesterday, an event traditionally attended by US presidents and which President Donald Trump was at last year.

Mr Lai, who assumes office in May, has angered China by saying he is a "realistic worker for Taiwan independence", a red line for Beijing which considers the island merely a Chinese province with no right to state-to-state relations.

Taiwan says it is an independent country called the Republic of China, its official name.

Mr Lai wrote on his Facebook page that he was going to the event in an individual capacity.
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