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Taiwan has a right to engage with the world and no country can stop that, President Lai Ching-te told Eswatini’s king after he arrived for a surprise trip that Taipei says Beijing tried to stop, as China condemned him as a “rat”.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as part of its territory with no right to state-to-state ties, a position Taiwan’s government strongly disputes, and Beijing has demanded countries stop any engagements with the island, News.Az reports, citing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/taiwan-president-defiant-begins-eswatini-trip-china-calls-him-rat-2026-05-03/"…