The private meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Simi Valley comes against the very public backdrop of heightened U.S. focus on China over its actions at home and abroad.
The private meeting between Tsai and McCarthy comes against the very public backdrop of heightened U.S. focus on China over its actions at home and abroad, particularly China’s potential aggression enforcing its claims over the island of Taiwan.The moment will be historic — a U.S. House speaker meeting with the president of Taiwan fora high-profile encounter designed to boost support for the island government but already drawing blowback from an enraged China.
"It’s a very good debut," said Newt Gingrich, the Republican former speaker who led a delegation to Taiwan decades ago and advises McCarthy. The Biden administration is watching China’s interactions with Russia vis-a-vis the war in Ukraine, while Congress is probing China over a host of issues, from the Chinese spy balloon that floated over North America earlier this year to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to Chinese social media giant TikTok’s data privacy practices.
"It’s particularly an opportunity to demonstrate how strong the relationship with the United States is," said Bonnie S. Glaser, the managing director of the Indo-Pacific program at the German Marshall Fund. McCarthy, a sandwich shop operator in Bakersfield, California, before working as a congressional aide and being elected to Congress, is not known for vast foreign policy experience.
Pelosi’s 2022 Taiwan visit drew fierce rebuke from China with live-fire drills that included firing missiles over the island. In December, China sent planes and ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force.McCarthy’s more cautious foreign policy approach makes sense politically for the new leader as he tries to steer a Republican party that has become more isolationist, and less willing to engage the U.S. abroad as an earlier generation of lawmakers.
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