The two leaders stood side by side in a show of unity at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, acknowledging China's threats against the island government but speaking only of maintaining longstanding U.S. policy.
Risking China's anger, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday as a "great friend of America" in a fraught show of U.S. support at a rare high-level, bipartisan meeting on U.S. soil.
McCarthy evoked Reagan's peace-through-strength approach to foreign relations and emphasized that "this is a bipartisan meeting of members of Congress," not any one political party. He said U.S.-Taiwan ties are stronger than at any other point in his life.She said the "unwavering support reassures the people of Taiwan that we are not isolated."
They made no mention of calls from hard-liners in and out of Congress for a greater U.S. commitment to Taiwan's defense if China should attack. The United States broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government. The U.S. acknowledges a "one-China" policy in which Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, but it does not endorse China's claim to the island and remains Taiwan's key provider of military and defense assistance.
However, Chinese vessels have started a joint patrol and inspection operation in the central and northern waters of the Taiwan Strait, state media announced Wednesday morning. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday evening it had also tracked the Chinese Army's Shandong aircraft carrier passing through the Bashi Strait, to Taiwan's southeast.
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