House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, advised of political implications of a Taipei visit, plans to meet Taiwan’s president at a Reagan Library event in California
Last year, House Speaker-hopeful Kevin McCarthy said he would “love” to visit Taiwan. But now that he has become the Republican leader, a trip to Taipei, he has been advised, would get tangled up in Taiwanese presidential election politics.In recent weeks, an opportunity arose to meet Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in early April in California, where she has been invited to make a public speech at the Reagan Library.
Taiwanese officials have advised McCarthy’s staff, according to people familiar with the matter, that a trip this year would be exploited for political purposes by the opposition Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang. The KMT favors closer ties with Beijing and, in the run-up to next year’s presidential election, has sought to portray Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party’s cross-strait policy as dangerous, unnecessarily provocative and raising the risk of war with China.
The Reagan Library on Jan. 24 invited Tsai to give a public speech, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by The Washington Post. She gave her first public address in the United States as president at the library in 2018. A Reagan Foundation spokeswoman said that as of Saturday, she still could not confirm Tsai’s visit, but two other individuals directly familiar with the matter said she had accepted the invitation.
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