High-ranking U.S. officials don’t usually go to Taiwan. Here’s why.
The United States initially recognized Taiwan’s government, founded by Chinese nationalists who fled the mainland in 1949, as the government of China. But after Washington and Beijing formally established diplomatic relations in 1979, the U.S.-Taiwan relationship entered a decades-long period of diplomatic limbo.Washington and Taipei behaved like allies — yet neither maintains an official embassy in the other’s capital. U.S.
This all meant that while support for Taiwan became an important rallying cry in Washington, senior U.S. officials rarely — if ever — visited. The last high-ranking U.S. official to visit Taiwan was then-speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
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