The meeting comes amid an increasingly fraught relationship between the U.S. and China.
— House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is hosting a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in California on Wednesday in a high-stakes show of support that has already drawn the condemnation of China.
Several Democratic and Republican lawmakers were expected to join the meeting with Tsai at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, including GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House select committee on competition with the Chinese Communist Party. McCarthy and Tsai are expected to deliver statements after the meeting, and the group of lawmakers will later take questions.
Since then, the U.S. has maintained a policy of"strategic ambiguity" over the status of Taiwan, declining to formally commit to intervening militarily if China invaded while providing the government in Taiwan with billions of dollars in military aid. President Biden raised eyebrows last year when hethe U.S.
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