CNBC
Date: Jul 19 2019
By: Huileng Tan
KEY POINTS
- Taiwan’s president is expected to transit in the U.S. on Friday — for the second time in as many weeks — as she returns from visiting diplomatic allies in the Caribbean. The move is sure to make China angry.
- Her trip comes on the heels of the U.S. State Department approving a $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
- China has threatened to impose sanctions on U.S. firms associated with the deal.
Taiwan’s president is expected to transit in the U.S. on Friday for the second time this month, when
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen waves while registering as the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) 2020 presidential candidate at the party’s headquarter in Taipei on March 21, 2019.
Sam Yeh | AFP | Getty Images
Tsai Ing-wen, the island’s pro-independence leader, is due to make her second stopover in Denver on Friday.
“China opposes official exchange between the US and Taiwan. This position is firm and clear,” the Chinese foreign ministry said on July 12. The U.S. should not to allow Tsai’s transit and must “stop the official exchange with Taiwan,” said Geng Shuang, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry.
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