Tsai to make landmark NASA stopover

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Taipei Times
Date: Aug 19, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is slated to visit NASA’s Johnson

President Tsai Ing-wen addresses the Belizean National Assembly on Friday.  Photo: CNA

Space Center in Houston, Texas, today — a visit of political significance, as it would be the first time a president from Taiwan has entered a US federal building in their official capacity after US President Donald Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act in March.

The Taiwan Travel Act allows high-level US officials to visit Taiwan and vice versa, breaking from previous US policy that did not permit bilateral visits by Cabinet-level ministers, but allowed Taiwanese presidents to transit through US cities en route to other countries.

Tsai arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday last week en route to Paraguay and Belize, two of Taiwan’s 18 diplomatic allies. On her return trip, she arrived in Houston yesterday for a 27-hour transit.

The president is to return to Taiwan late tomorrow.

Speaking to reporters accompanying her on the trip, Tsai on Friday said that Washington followed its four principles of providing travelers “safety, comfort, convenience and dignity,” as it has done in the past.
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