Transit diplomacy

In 1979, the United States recognized the PRC and severed ties with the Taiwanese government, ending official contacts between Taiwan and the U.S.

The Clinton administration permitted his flight to be refueled but refused to let him enter Honolulu to spend a night.

Additionally, the reception for Lee was going to take place in a small dingy room in Hickam Air Force Base.

Lee refused to meet the representative at the door, as he stated sarcastically, "I might slip and enter America.

"[1] In 1995, after president Lee Teng-hui visited his alma mater Cornell University, the PRC government broke off semiofficial contacts and escalated military tensions, initiating the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.

President Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 stopover in Los Angeles included a meeting with American Institute in Taiwan chairman Raymond Burghardt