Taiwan is in “many ways a model for the world”, America’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Twitter on Thursday following her conversation with the president of the self-ruled island.US envoy Kelly Craft spoke to Tsai Ing-wen via a video link after her planned three-day visit to Taiwan from Wednesday was cancelled at the last minute by the US Department of State, which said it had shelved all travel plans to help ease the transition to a new administration in Washington.A vocal supporter…

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