Overview

• President Lai’s planned visits to Paraguay, Guatemala and Belize have been postponed indefinitely as Taipei focuses on typhoon recovery and reciprocal tariff talks with Washington.
• Taiwan’s Presidential Office and U.S. officials confirm Lai has no scheduled overseas trips, contradicting earlier reports of August stopovers in New York and Dallas.
• U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce reiterated that transits by high-level Taiwanese officials remain routine and fully consistent with longstanding policy.
• Third-round U.S.-China trade negotiations are underway in Stockholm to extend the tariff truce and lay groundwork for a potential Trump-Xi summit this autumn.
• Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other critics warn that yielding to Beijing’s objections on Taiwan transit undermines U.S. credibility.