U.S. lawmakers emerged from their meeting Wednesday with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen determined to figure out why the U.S. has yet to deliver key weapons systems to Taiwan, according to one of the participants.
Rep. Ryan Zinke, Montana Republican, said both Democrats and Republicans in the meeting want to figure out what the holdup is, and see whether it requires more legislation from Congress to get Taiwan the weapons it has bought but which are stuck in what the administration calls a supply chain backlog.
The meeting took place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, and involved a bipartisan U.S. delegation led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, California Republican. “Freedom matters, and I think it was apropos that we met at the Reagan Center because it was Ronald Reagan that really set this country on a course that we will defend freedom,” he said. “It’s one China, but two systems. And we’ve seen most recently what’s happened in Hong Kong. It was ‘one China, two systems,’ that rapidly eroded into one system.”
A trip to Taiwan last year by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew an outsized reaction from China, which promised severe retaliation against the U.S.
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