'Chinese Communist Party officials have quietly suggested to the Biden administration that they send VP to Beijing when SpeakerMcCarthy goes to Taiwan,' TomRtweets writes.
Anticipating a visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — still to be planned and scheduled — China is offering a compromise. In return for allowing McCarthy to visit Taiwan without the sort of military reaction that followed Nancy Pelosi's 2022 visit to the island democracy, China wants Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Beijing simultaneously.
For a start, the Biden administration would signal weakness and hesitation were it to do such a thing. This is not to say that the U.S. should do whatever upsets China the most in relation to Taiwan. One of the few areas where I agree with Jessica Chen Weiss, for example, is her suggestion that the U.S. look for a reciprocal reduction of military activity in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan must also massively increase defense spending if it expects America to fight alongside it.
Taking this option would also mean undermining the speaker and, by association, the legislative branch. It would be one thing had the administration sent Harris to Beijing when Pelosi visited Taiwan. But it did not do so. To shift strategy because a Republican now holds the speaker's gavel would evince partisanship.
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