TAIPEI: The United States secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is scheduled to visit Taiwan in coming days in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei in 1979.
The visit by Alex Azar, and especially a planned meeting with Taiwan’s leader, will likely create new friction between the US and China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary.
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