In a highly sensitive US visit, Taiwan's president delivered the message on Thursday that keeping her self-ruled island strong will help ensure the world's safety even as her travel is carefully calibrated to try to contain what furious Chinese officials warn could be a strong response. Taiwan is billing President Tsai Ing-wen's visit to New York as simply a “transit," but she kept a full agenda of events Wednesday and Thursday before flying to Central America. Most provocatively in the eyes of Beijing, her trip is expected to include a meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy next week. In a sign of the sensitivity of her visit, little about Tsai's full itinerary has been made public, and her events Thursday were closed to the news media.