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Briceno Walks Diplomatic Tightrope Between Taipei and Beijing
posted (September 19, 2019)

And while Briceno was dealing with his accident - during that same week - his area representative for Caribbean Shores, Kareem Musa was in mainland China rubbing shoulders with apparatchiks of China's Zhi Gong Party.

That sent all kinds of geopolitical signals - and raised the questions of whether the PUP - if elected - would consider a switch in alliances between Taiwan and China - as others in the region have done.

Today we asked Briceno to comment on Musa’s mission to the mainland:

According to Wikipedia, the Zhi Gong Party that invited Musa “appears to be used as a convenient intermediary for contacts with certain foreign interests.â€￾

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