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Lai Ching-te Eswatini visit suspension and overflight dispute

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Lin Chia-lung carries the Eswatini program forward through a special-envoy mission

Key takeaways

  • The episode suggests Taiwan presidential travel can be constrained through third-country overflight access, not only through pressure on host governments.
  • Competing accounts from Beijing, Mauritius and Taipei have turned a routing problem into a wider dispute over who sets the terms of Taiwan's international presence.
  • Taipei's shift to a Lin Chia-lung envoy mission shows how Taiwan is trying to preserve ties with Eswatini even after a head-of-state visit is blocked.

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