Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/23
By: Rita Cheng, Timothy J. Hwang and Kuan-lin Liu
Washington, Dec. 22 (CNA) Two U.S. congressmen asked Friday in a letter to the U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations to put pressure on China to stop blocking Taiwanese nationals from visiting the U.N. headquarters in New York.
Ohio Republican Congressman Steve Chabot and New Jersey Republican Congressman Chris Smith reportedly sent a formal letter to Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., in which they asked her to put pressure on China to stop blocking those holding Taiwanese passports from visiting the U.N.’s New York headquarters.
They asked Haley to use any possible means to figure out a solution to the block because Taiwan-U.S. relations are extremely important to the U.S. [FULL STORY]