The Associated Press has learned that the Taiwanese government has called off a plan for its president to transit through the United States on his way to Latin America.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te will delay an expected trip to remaining allies in the Americas that would have taken place next month, embassy officials told Reuters on Tuesday, due to damages from a typhoon and as the island faces more torrential rains.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te has postponed his visit to Guatemala until further notice due to damages from a typhoon which brought down torrential rains and forced thousands to evacuate, an embassy official in Guatemala told Reuters on Tuesday.