US Ambassador to UN meets Taiwan leader amidst tensions with China
US Ambassador to UN meets Taiwan leader amidst tensions with China
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There has been a stir in the States and China as their representatives recently met at a lunch. U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft had attended a lunch on Wednesday with Taiwan’s top official in New York, a meeting that she termed as “historic” and a further step in the Trump administration’s operations to build connections with the self-governing island that China alleges as part of its territory. Craft had her lunch with James K.J. Lee, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, at an outdoor restaurant on Manhattan’s East Side terming it as the first meeting between a top Taiwan official and a United States ambassador to the United Nations.

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She informed an associated Press, “I’m looking to do the right thing by my president, and I feel that he has sought to strengthen and deepen this bilateral relationship with Taiwan and I want to continue that on behalf of the administration.” The meeting came weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election touted to held at Nov 3 and barely a day before U.S. Undersecretary of State Keith Krach is due to arrive in Taiwan in the highest-level visit by a State Department administrator to the island in decades.

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He is anticipated to meet Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen on his visit and engage in an economic dialogue. The activity is certain to increase mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing over the COVID-19 pandemic, trade, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. Craft said Lee, who was secretary-general in Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs until July had just arrived in New York and invited her to lunch which she accepted.

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