tag Tsai Ing-wen

On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter

EghtesadOnline: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen , carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc on Saturday and reactivated an old account.
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Publish Date:15/January/2017 | 05:01

Trump's ‘Chess Game’ May Hurt Taiwan, Opposition Says

EghtesadOnline: Taiwan’s main opposition party warned against getting involved in the “big power play” of Donald Trump, ahead of President Tsai Ing-wen ’s transit stop in the U.S. this weekend.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:38

As Trump riles China, Taiwan tallies defense costs

EghtesadOnline: Before getting too carried away with Taiwan's elevated status under a Donald Trump presidency, President Tsai Ing-wen might want to check her bank balance.
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Publish Date:16/December/2016 | 10:00

Trump’s brave new world of Twitter diplomacy

EghtesadOnline: When it comes to managing relations with China, Donald Trump is tearing up the rulebook. First by using Twitter to announce his telephone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen , and then in his Sunday afternoon complaints over Beijing’s economic and military policy.
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Publish Date:06/December/2016 | 09:36

China lodges protest after Trump call with Taiwan president

EghtesadOnline: China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but blamed the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own for the "petty" move.
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Publish Date:03/December/2016 | 23:34

Taiwan president says phone call with Trump can take place again

EghtesadOnline: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said another direct phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump could take place again and she urged the self-ruled island's political rival China to step up to its global responsibility to keep the peace as a large nation.
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Publish Date:27/April/2017 | 11:08

Taiwanese Leader Tsai Says Beijing Reverting to Coercive Tactics

EghtesadOnline: Relations with China are becoming more fraught as Beijing increasingly reverts to threatening and intimidating its neighbor, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said while vowing not to return to “the old path of confrontation.”
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Publish Date:02/January/2017 | 07:23

China blames Taiwan for president's 'petty' phone call with Trump

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, the first such contact between the two sides in nearly four decades, but China dismissed the call as a "petty action" by the self-ruled island it claims as its own.
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Publish Date:03/December/2016 | 07:43