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Originally Posted by activeStick
Taiwan and the citizens prefer status quo over conflict, where status quo would have been no visits at this time. They've been forced into a tough position where congress members are visiting and with Taiwan's close ties to the US, wouldn't be a good look to ask them to not come. As someone mentioned, Taiwan and their people are just being used as pawns for American presence in Asia.
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Or, crazy thought, the people in charge of Taiwan have the ability to tell America "no" but instead are having meetings with high level officials, like the Taiwanese president. Perhaps they are getting nervous given Chinese past actions, and don't really welcome the idea of going through what Hong Kong just did. Having themselves replaced with mainland toadies.
Is there any actual evidence Taiwan is not happy about these visits? Because if they were, I'd suspect they wouldn't be so open to these meetings...