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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent

British MPs plan visit to Taiwan as tension with China simmers

Two soldiers lower the national flag in Taipei, Taiwan
The UK’s Taiwan visit was originally scheduled for early this year. Photograph: Chiang Ying-ying/AP

Britain’s House of Commons foreign affairs committee is planning a visit to Taiwan later this year – probably in November or early December – despite rising tensions in the region, the Guardian has learned.

Sources say the trip – which was originally scheduled for early this year but was postponed due to one member of the delegation testing positive for Covid – was intended to show Britain’s support for the democratically run island, which China considers its own.

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