CNN —Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-Te is expected to transit the US next month en route to Paraguay, the island’s presidential office announced at a news conference Monday.
The Biden administration expects the transit to occur “without incident,” a senior administration official said Sunday.
The transit comes as the Biden administration is working to regularize the pace of diplomacy with Beijing, with three top administration officials visiting China in the last month.
“These transits of senior officials are unofficial in keeping with our US One China policy,” the official said, calling the transits fairly common.
Candidates from other political parties may also visit the US later this year, but the senior administration official did not provide detail about future possible trips.
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