All eyes on Taiwan president

Mark of respect: Ma (second from left) paying his respects in front of a marble sarcophagus at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing. — AFP

CHINA has vowed to “fight back” should Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meet the US House Speaker during a trip to the United States.

Tsai left yesterday for the United States, from where she will head to Guatemala and Belize to shore up ties with diplomatic allies before heading to California, where US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had said he would meet her.