Azar leads highest-level US delegation to Taiwan in decades

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrives at Taipei Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei in 1979.

Azar is due to meet with the island’s independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen along with health officials during a three-day visit aimed at highlighting cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.Taiwan’s government-run health care system has been credited with keeping the number of coronavirus cases to under 500 with just seven deaths, despite its close proximity to China where the virus originated.

Azar is the first health secretary to visit Taiwan and the first Cabinet member to visit in six years. In 2014, then-Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy visited Taiwan, sparking protests from Beijing. China has cut contacts with Tsai over her refusal to recognize China’s claim to the island and has brought increasing diplomatic, economic and military pressure against her, including by poaching away several of its remaining diplomatic allies and excluding it from international gatherings including the World Health Assembly. That, in turn, has increased already considerable bipartisan sympathy for Taipei in Washington and prompted new measures to strengthen governmental and military ties.

It's ok people, just checking in on my business interests

The visit of an American health secretary to a place where COVID19 is successfully contained is definitely good news for Americans! But out of all places, Taiwan? And at a time when America is facing a new wave back home?

Why...we have a pandemic right here they are incompetent dealing with

WHY? Send Swampeo. We're dying over here. Thighwan

Trump wants a tower there...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrives in Thighwan in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Thighpei in 1979.

Doesn't Alex Azar have better things to do during the CoronaVirus pandemic 😷

this is all Obama's doing. Trump was simply the president. But it's a good thing, so clearly Obama did it. But if Trump did it, it's bad. Let me check why

Is he picking up young girls for Trump's Florida massage parlor pimp, Madame Yang?

Good way for the Trump administration to antagonize China into possibly engaging in a low-level military conflict just so he can make the argument that he's a 'wartime president' and thus needs to be re-elected.

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