Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech after her inauguration ceremony at a government guest house in Taipei, Taiwan on May 20, 2020.

Taiwan's presidential office said President Tsai Ing-wen would meet with the delegation on Thursday morning. Taiwan's Foreign Ministry said the group would arrive at Taipei's downtown Songshan airport mid-afternoon on Wednesday.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen also offered her sincere condolences on Cheng's death and her hopes for a prompt recovery of those who were injured in the shooting. “Violence is never the answer,” she posted on Twitter.

(Ann Wang/Reuters) Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen leaves the annual Han Kuang military drill in, Taichung, Taiwan, on July 16, 2020.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan is already an independent country called the Republic of China, its official name. China calls Tsai a separatist.

If democratic Taiwan fell to the communist Chinese regime, there would be “catastrophic“ consequences for regional peace and democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen warned amid a dramatic escalation in tensions across the Taiwan Strait.

(Ann Wang/Reuters) Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen leaves the annual Han Kuang military drill in, Taichung, Taiwan, on July 16, 2020.

McCarthy met with Taiwan’s outgoing president Tsai Ing-wen in California in April but is not expected to have a face-to-face meeting with You this week.

(Executive Yuan via AP) The European delegation will also meet President Tsai Ing-wen and Digital Minister Audrey Tang, and visit Taiwanese think tanks, NGOs, and others working on countering disinformation.

In early April, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States and met with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

She visited Taiwan, met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and said a simple truth before the flashing lights: We stand with Taiwan.

–Taiwan relations, starting with his unprecedented phone conversation in 2016—the first such official call since 1960—with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who congratulated the U.S. president-elect.

Attending the commissioning of the domestically-made T$2.8 billion ($100.52 million) Chiayi in the southern city of Kaohsiung, President Tsai Ing-wen said the word "Taiwan" in English will be gradually printed on all coast guard vessels.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, reelected by a landslide last year on a pledge to stand up to the CCP, has made modernizing Taiwan's mainly U.S.-equipped military a priority, turning it into a "porcupine," both highly mobile and hard to attack.

He met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on his first visit to the island since he stepped down from his old post.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen re-tweeted it, adding: "Thank you to the U.S. for your generosity. Together, we will beat this pandemic." However, the post was then removed, apparently on Wednesday.

News Analysis A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers met with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen on April 15, a move that Beijing called “deliberately provocative.”

TAIPEI—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on people to eat more pineapples to help farmers on Friday, saying Taiwan had been "ambushed" by a ban on the fruit by neighboring long-time rival China which claims the island as its own.

Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) led a delegation to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, as well as President of the Executive Yuan Su Tseng-chang and Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua, for an in-depth meeting on various issues regarding Taiwan-U.S. relations

At the same time, Congress should host Taiwanese officials, permitting Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to address a joint session.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with the delegation. Tsai’s office said the group was dispatched by U.S. President Joe Biden, and their visit would permit “an in-depth exchange of views on Taiwan-U.S. cooperation issues in various fields.”

However, local media have reported that she will arrive at around 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, then visit the island’s parliament and meet with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen the next day, citing unnamed sources.

“We will continue to bolster our national defense and demonstrate our determination to defend ourselves in order to ensure that nobody can force Taiwan to take the path China has laid out for us,” President Tsai Ing-wen said during the ceremony, which

He pointed out that the "Laws and Regulations Regarding Hong Kong & Macao Affairs” was drafted by incumbent Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in 1990, and he saw no possibility that Tsai would overturn the regulations outlined in that year during her current

The Future of Freedom at Stake Following the incursions earlier this month, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen swore that the self-governed island would defend itself and its “free and democratic way of life” from CCP aggression.

Tsai Ing-wen and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu.

(center L) poses for photographs after receiving the Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon, Taiwan's highest civilian honor, from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen (center R) at the president's office in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 3, 2022.

Acknowledging that Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen wants everything delivered “as soon as possible,” Sherman described bolstering Taiwan’s own capabilities as a core part of the strategy.

Taiwan marks its own national day next Sunday, with a major speech by President Tsai Ing-wen and military parade in central Taipei, which will include a fly-by of fighter jets.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen tweeted she was touched by the U.S. move. "Thank you to the U.S. for this moving gesture of friendship. These vaccines will go a long way toward keeping Taiwan safe & healthy."