As the Nets start to plan for their season to start, team owner Joe Tsai’s other squad, the Liberty, is coming to the end of theirs.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/jacque-vaughn-getting-first-chance-at-a-nets-training-camp/

In 2016, the independence-leaning DPP won national elections and Beijing cut off contact with Taiwan’s government, citing Tsai’s refusal to endorse the idea that Taiwan and China are one country.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/03/former-taiwan-president-ma-ying-jeou-will-visit-china/

On Saturday, in a blow to Taipei’s international standing shortly before Ms. Tsai’s overseas trip, Honduras announced it was severing diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/world/asia/taiwan-china-ma-visit.html

She added that China’s recent criticism of Tsai’s trip had “become increasingly ridiculous”.

Source: https://www.mutiny.in/china-warns-the-speaker-of-the-us-house-of-representatives-not-to-meet-with-the-president-of-taiwan/

Superstar highlighted Joe and Clara Wu Tsai’s investment as a factor in her free agency decision to sign with the Liberty.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/sports/sparks/story/2023-05-18/can-curt-miller-turn-the-sparks-into-a-wnba-power-again

Tsai’s visit to the Central American neighbors comes after Honduras became the latest country to cut diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing.

Source: https://ticotimes.net/2023/03/31/after-contentious-us-visit-taiwans-president-heads-to-central-america