Why the Road to Taiwan's Presidency Runs Through Washington

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Debra Mao and James Nash, Why the Road to Taiwan's Presidency Runs Through Washington. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Nov 12, 2015 (blog).
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -through-washington

Quote:

"An estimated 1.8 million Taiwanese live abroad, including 300,000 in and around Los Angeles, according to Kent Yang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Foreign Ministry’s unofficial outpost in the city.

"Few Taiwanese-Americans make the trip home to vote. In the Los Angeles area, only about 3,000 overseas citizens traveled back to vote in 2012, according to the foreign ministry’s Yang. That said, they are an active source of financial and political support

My comment: I have never figured out why the presidential candidates go to Washington DC and Tokyo.