Taiwan Confident Trump Will Allow Leader to Transit Through US

Taiwan is confident the Trump administration will allow President Lai Ching-te to make a US stopover, a senior official said, citing recent communication with Washington.

“We don’t think having transit stops in the US will be an issue,” Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said in a Bloomberg News interview on Tuesday. “Based on our communication, we are confident in the near future, we can just have a visit to the Latin American countries by way of the United States.”