Inside the Secret Mission to Fly Taiwan’s President to Africa

Scritto il 14/05/2026
da Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien

From satellite phone check-ins to a borrowed royal plane, new details show how Taiwan’s leader’s team outwitted China and pulled off an audacious journey to southern Africa.A photograph provided by the Taiwan Presidential Office showed the Taiwanese leader, Lai Ching-te, waving upon arriving in Eswatini in May.