President Tsai Ing-wen is returning to Taiwan via the United States in what is her seventh such transit since taking office in 2016.
in the Taiwan Strait," a first by leaders of the two countries in more than 50 years. The ripple effect of a potential cross-strait clash was made clear to other major economies in the West, which have been reaffirming the status quo in talks with American counterparts and—perhaps most crucially—even among themselves.
Also part of Tsai's legacy, he said, was Taiwan's elevated standing among other democracies in the world, almost all of which don't have official ties with Taipei. It has led to a string of parliamentary and cabinet-level visits to the island from North America, Europe and Asia in recent years. "The deepening architecture of consequential ties between Taiwan and democracies around the world—military, economic and so on—I think will still offer a safety net and some degree of compensation," Diamond said.
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