https://us.yahoo.com/news/us-announces-highest-level-visit-decades-taiwan-022201588.html
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Are they going to quarantine 14 days upon arrival?
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I’d bet they don’t.
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I see CNN has an article on this but I haven’t read it yet.
That has been answered in the Taiwan coronavirus thread. The answer is “no” but lots of testing. And something about a barge pole. Us Yanks would say ten foot pole, which is about the right length for social distancing coincidentally.
“LeBron Kowalski, a 10-foot Pole, said he would be quarantining.”
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a 10-foot Ukrainian would be more believable…
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China’s reaction
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Makes threats while accusing others of endangering peace 
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Anyone know if he’s going to officially pay his respect to Lee Teng-hui’s family?
So 2 middle fingers up to China instead of just 1?
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I don’t see the point of it. “Here’s what we did that wouldn’t be feasible in the USA”. But, if it pisses off the CCP then I’m a happy bunny.
Probably a good week to avoid talking to unknown foreigners in bars and restaurants
n street corners
Secretary Azar praised Taiwan’s response to Covid-19 and added “We in the United States decided to follow a different course, which is why you had 7 deaths, and we have had 165,000 so far.”
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I’d been reading a book, The Middle Kingdom and the Land of the Rising Sun: A history of Sino-Japanese Relations. I learned that China has always gotten mad at everything since the beginning of modern times.
Trump is used to that by now. Everybody does it to him.