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soryang

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Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:25 AM Aug 2020

US health chief to make most senior visit to Taiwan in decades

By Paula Hancocks and Nectar Gan, CNN

Updated 2:34 AM ET, Wed August 5, 2020


Taipei (CNN)United States Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar will lead a delegation to Taiwan, his office announced Tuesday, in a high-level trip that is almost certain to anger Beijing, which claims the self-governing island as part of its territory.

The trip, scheduled "in the coming days," will be the highest level visit by any US Cabinet official to the island since 1979, when Washington broke official ties with Taiwan to establish diplomatic relations with Beijing, said a statement from the US Health and Human Services (HHS) Department.

The high-profile trip is likely to worsen relations between Beijing-Washington, which have nosedived this year to their lowest point in decades. For years, tensions and rivalries have simmered between the world's two largest economies over trade, technology and geopolitics, but the coronavirus pandemic has dealt a further blow to their already strained ties...


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/asia/us-health-chief-taiwan-visit-intl-hnk/index.html

If Taiwan shared its "best practices" with the US administration, there is certainly no sign of that here. Also, the administration gave formal notice that it was withdrawing from the WHO, so why do they care who attends WHA meetings? Lets see if we can make this crisis worse. Azar is a former drug company executive and lobbyist who clerked for Anton Scalia. No wonder our public health system is a catastrophic failure.

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