Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are meeting in California on Wednesday, a highly anticipated event that marks a show of democratic solidarity in defiance of threats from China.
Tsai is gathering with McCarthy and a bipartisan group of US lawmakers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California’s Simi Valley. The landmark meeting is the second time Tsai has met with an American lawmaker of that rank in the space of a year, following a visit from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August. Tsai will also be the first Taiwanese president to meet with a US House speaker on American soil.
China’s Consulate General in Los Angeles condemned the anticipated meeting with McCarthy as “not conducive to regional peace, security and stability,” warning it would “undermine the political foundation” of China-US relations. On Tuesday the island’s foreign ministry called repeated Chinese criticisms of her travel “increasingly absurd and unreasonable.”
A source close to McCarthy told CNN the meeting is an important moment for the Speaker, who has made creating a select committee on China one of his top priorities and views the US relationship with China as a central issue of our time. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries released a statement on Wednesday saying that he met with Tsai last week during her transit through New York city.
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