US health chief's Taiwan trip angers China

By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee
Updated August 5 2020 - 6:06pm, first published 6:05pm
China is angry US health chief Alex Azar is visiting Taiwan.
China is angry US health chief Alex Azar is visiting Taiwan.

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar will visit Taiwan in coming days, his office says, making the highest-level visit by a US official in four decades - a move that has angered China which claims the island as its own.

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