.HouseForeignGOP chair RepMcCaul warned that the Chinese government is plotting to pick Taiwan’s next president as Taiwanese leadership also expressed concern about an increasingly belligerent Beijing’s potential election meddling in its 2024 elections.
Rep. Michael McCaul , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a congressional delegation to Taiwan last week, where the House members met with Taiwan’s top political leaders. The trip came as Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States at the same time that Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s former president just before Tsai and a leader in the Kuomintang rival party, visited China.China has also sought to meddle in elections in Western countries such as the U.S.
The House chairman added, “It will be a lot easier for them to influence an election without a shot fired than it would be to go to war.” Ma said at the start of his recent visit to China that “people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese people.” He declared at the end of his visit the Taiwan government led by Tsai and the DPP “continues to lead Taiwan to danger — the future is a choice between peace or war.”
The KMT is considered to have factions that are pro-unification with China, but the KMT did pull its pro-unification plank from its platform in 2017.
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