Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen to receive leadership award in New York

Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen will speak in New York and receive a leadership award from a prominent think-tank when she travels to the US this month, on a trip that will include a meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

People familiar with the situation said the Taiwanese leader would speak at the New York event sponsored by the Washington-based Hudson Institute on March 30.