A Shanghai delegation visits Taiwan for the first time in three years

MADRID, 18 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A delegation from Shanghai, China, has arrived in Taiwan this Saturday to attend, at the invitation of Taipei's leaders, the Lantern Festival, this being the first visit from the Asian giant since the start of the covid-19 pandemic three years ago. years.

Diplomatic representatives of the Government of China have arrived this Saturday at the Songshan airport to visit Taiwan from February 18 to 20 at the invitation of the leaders of the city of Taipei, as reported by the official agency of the CAN island.

The delegation is made up of, among others, the deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office in Shanghai, Li Xiaodong, and five other members who will attend the cultural event and will also visit the island's municipal buildings.

The councilor of the city of Taipei, He Menghua, has communicated the three-day itinerary of the Chinese delegation, visits among which is the appointment at the Taipei Pop Music Center, the Taiwan Lantern Festival to see the main light show, the Taipei Performing Arts Center and the city's 'big data' center, according to the aforementioned agency.

At the gates of the international arrivals exit of the Taiwan airport, several groups have gathered to protest the visit of the delegation, which have had to be removed from the delegation by police officers.

This visit also coincides with the arrival on the island of the Deputy Undersecretary of the United States Department of Defense, Michael Chase, who landed in Taiwan this Friday at the height of tension with China over the balloons detected in the last month.

Chase, who is in charge of China policy at the Pentagon, has thus become the first senior Pentagon official to visit the island in four years, when the Undersecretary for East Asia, Heino Klinck, traveled in 2019, becoming the most high office to visit Taiwan in four decades.