Taiwan's vice president-elect William Lai will go to this week's high-profile National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington, he said on Monday, an event traditionally attended by U.S. presidents and which President
Donald Trump was at last year.
Lai, who assumes office in May, has angered
China by saying he is a "realistic worker for Taiwan independence", a red line for
Beijing which considers the island merely a Chinese province with no right to state-to-state relations.
Taiwan says it is an independent country called the Republic of China, its official name.