Taiwan's president "will stop over" in the US

Tsai Ing-wen is expected to arrive in the United States soon, and she could meet the Speaker of the House, McCarthy. The move could trigger new heavy Chinese military exercises around the island: and trigger the temptation in the US administration to stand up to Xi in a show in the Taiwan Strait. Last summer, a visit to Taipei by then Washington House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave China the excuse to unleash a demonstration military operation around Taiwan. For about ten days, the island was effectively subjected to an air-naval blockade by the Navy and Air Force of the People's Republic of China. Now it is the Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen who is planning a sortie to the United States: and the hypothesis has already caused a preventive protest from Beijing. It's a delicate matter. President Tsai's will not be an official visit, just a stopover on the way to Central America, where she is expected in Guatemala and Belize, two of the fifteen countries in the world that formally recognize the government of Taiwan and have full diplomatic relations. As is known, the United States (and almost the entire international community, including the UN) adhere to the "One China" principle.