Taiwan President Returns to Taipei Amid Improving Relationship With US

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen delivers a speech during the inauguration of the Taiwan Fair in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 13, 2019. Pierre Michel Jean/AFP/Getty Images

TAIPEI, Taiwan—President Tsai Ing-wen returned to Taiwan on July 22, after a 12-day trip to Taiwan’s four diplomatic allies in the Caribbean, with stopovers in New York City and Denver.

Local experts applauded Tsai’s overseas trip as a huge diplomatic success, which included solidifying the self-ruled island’s relationship with the United States.