US senators visit Taiwan, in trip that may irk China
By DW
11 June 2021 |
1:08 pm
A team of bipartisan US senators has arrived in Taiwan, and is expected to meet President Tsai Ing-wen later. The US will give 750,000 doses of COVID vaccines to the island, they said.
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