(UPDATE) HAGATNA, Guam — Lai Ching-te spoke to the United States' Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday, the Taiwanese leader's office said as he visits the American territory of Guam during a Pacific tour that has angered China.

Taiwan calls itself a sovereign nation, but Beijing insists that the democratic island is part of its territory and opposes any official exchanges with it.

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