House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will meet Wednesday in California amid ongoing tensions with the People's Republic of China.
Taiwan is separated from China by the Taiwan Strait, which is a vital sea lane for vessels traveling to and from ports in China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. The Wall Street Journal reported that half of the global fleet of container ships and 90% of the world’s largest ships by tonnage passed through the waterway in 2021. To the south lies the South China Sea, where trillions of dollars worth of commerce are moved each year.
The Rocket Force under the Eastern Theatre Command of China's People's Liberation Army conducts conventional missile tests into the waters off the eastern coast of Taiwan from an undisclosed location in this handout released Aug. 4, 2022. In the years after the Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949 with the communists defeating the nationalists who fled the mainland for Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China , the U.S. entered into a mutual defense treaty with Taiwan that took effect in 1955 amid heightened tensions caused by the PRC seizing disputed islands claimed by Taiwan.
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