LOS ANGELES: Taiwan's president has given a speech in the United States—the first time in 15 years that a leader of the island has spoken publicly on American soil—in a move likely to anger Beijing.

During a stopover en route to Paraguay, Tsai Ing-wen, whose government refuses to endorse Beijing's view that Taiwan is part of China, vowed to defend democratic values.

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