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Smoothie Diplomacy

| Dalia Parete |

Former Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) created a viral moment during her European tour when cameras captured her confidently downing a green smoothie at Leafood, a Taiwan-Lithuania agricultural venture. The image was widely covered by media outlets from the DPP-leaning Liberty Times (自由時報) to Taiwan’s Central News Agency (中央社). It quickly spread across social platforms, garnering over 60,000 Facebook likes. On her Facebook post, commenters marveled at how she could “make drinking a green latte look like wine tasting” and praised her “natural and unpretentious” demeanor. This adds to what netizens call the “Tsai meme series” (小英迷因哏圖系列), a collection of candid moments that have endeared the former president to younger generations. For more of Tsai’s memorable memes, see this Threads post.

Taiwan’s former president Tsai downs a smoothie in Lithuania.

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