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President departs for Central America

Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday afternoon left Taiwan on a 10-day trip to Central America that includes stopovers in New York and Los Angeles.

“Through this visit, I will express my gratitude to diplomatic partners for their support of Taiwan,” Tsai said at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport shortly before boarding the plane.

The trip to Guatemala and Belize — her first overseas journey since the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping around the world in early 2020 — aims to “demonstrate Taiwan’s determination to deepen exchanges” with its Central American allies, she said.

Taiwan forges new relationships

The Liberty Times Editorial

Czech Chamber of Deputies Speaker Marketa Pekarova Adamova arrived in Taiwan on Saturday, leading a delegation of more than 160 people. This is the second visit to the nation by a Czech parliamentary leader after Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil’s visit in 2020, and it is the largest Czech business delegation to travel overseas in the past five years.

Together with the plan to commence direct flights between Taiwan and the Czech Republic in the middle of July, this visit shows how quickly the two countries’ relations are warming. As well as attending a bilateral economic cooperation conference, Adamova is scheduled to visit the Legislative Yuan today and deliver a speech.

Ma departs on trip to China amid protests

Taipei Times

Former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday departed for a 12-day trip to China as scheduled, despite calls for him to cancel the trip after Honduras severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan as an apparent result of China’s dollar diplomacy.

“This is my first trip to China. I was 37 when I began handling cross-strait affairs in the government. Now I am 73 and have waited 36 years for the visit. It is indeed a bit too long, but I am glad I can go,” Ma of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) told reporters at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

‘V4’ relations solid, but need a boost

Kristina Kironska

Cooperation between Taiwan and the V4 countries — the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary — has been growing. The V4, or the Visegrad Group, is an informal regional format of cooperation between the four central European countries, which are linked by common geopolitical issues, along with shared cultures and values.

Thanks to their donations of vaccines to Taiwan, these countries gained substantial political goodwill locally. Within and outside Taiwan, the V4 countries — with the exception of Hungary — have gained recognition as European vanguards that have increasingly frequent interactions with Taiwan.

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