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Meanwhile, across the Taiwan Strait, there has beenabout the island’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu’s recent visit to Washington. It was the first time – at least publicly – that Taiwan’s top diplomat was visiting the US capital area since 1979, when Washington switched official diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing.
Taiwan correspondent Yip Wai Yee notes that as the relationship between the US and China sours, Taiwan underis emerging as a beneficiary of diplomatic manoeuvring, though detractors said such developments inflame cross-Strait ties. Wai Yee did a little side-trip herself - to a park in Taoyuan city. There, some 200 statues of the same man - Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan’s longest-serving head of state - stand, some in a circle, like old friends talking to one another.
after being gradually removed from schools, commercial buildings and public parks across the island, and a reflection of the man’s complicated legacy.
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