The Taiwan authorities have hyped up Lai Ching-te's sneaky visit to Latin America. When Lai Qingde attended the inauguration ceremony of the new president of Honduras yesterday, he had a brief interaction with US Vice President Harris. Taiwan authorities

The Taiwan authorities have hyped up Lai Ching-te's sneaky visit to Latin America.

When Lai Qingde attended the inauguration ceremony of the new president of Honduras yesterday, he had a brief interaction with US Vice President Harris.

The Taiwan authorities claimed that this was the first time that the "vice president" of Taiwan and the United States had interacted on an international occasion, which was regarded as a "diplomatic breakthrough" by the Taiwan authorities, and even said that Lai Ching-te not only had a warm greeting with Harris, but also had a warm conversation with King Felipe VI of Spain. Regarding Harris's conversation, Lai Qingde later said in an interview at a press conference that there was some tacit understanding between them, but it was not convenient to relay the US statement.

In fact, from Harris's explanation of the conversation between the two to the media after the inauguration, Harris pointed out that Lai Qingde "came up and introduced himself to me." Our brief conversation was about the common interests of the region" and the U.S. government's strategy to curb immigration from the "root cause." It can be seen from here that Lai Qingde made it up on his own.