Several lawmakers confirmed they met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen last week. Tsai is scheduled to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday.
China has accused Tsai and her Democratic Progressive Party of covertly supporting Taiwan’s formal independence and intensified military threats, regularly flying large numbers of fighter jets close to Taiwanese airspace and sending warships across what had for decades been an informal boundary down the middle of the Taiwan Strait.with its greatest display of military might since the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in the 1990s.
But Taiwan, too, does not want to give ground when China is doing “everything within their power to continue to strangle Taiwan's international space, inclusive of Taiwan's relations with the United States,” said Vincent Chao, a former Washington D.C.-based Taiwanese diplomat. “It's important to show that, like China, Taiwan and the United States have red lines as well,” which included not backtracking on high-level meetings that happened before, he said.
Despite China’s nationalist rhetoric, each side appears to be taking steps to avoid serious fallout, according to Su Tzu-yun, a military analyst at the government-funded Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taiwan.Su cited an announcement of a special operation in the Taiwan Strait from the Maritime Safety Administration of Fujian province, which may indicate Beijing is attempting to signal resolve without resorting to military exercises.
as Tsai was in the Americas. The retired Kuomintang politician, ostensibly on a personal trip to visit the home of his ancestors, sparked controversy when he said that Taiwan was part of “one China” — a position that is increasingly unpopular in Taiwan.Speaking at Hunan University, Ma cited revisions to the constitution of the Republic of China, Taiwan’s official name, to claim that Taipei’s official position is that the “mainland” and Taiwan are separate zones within a single country.
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, the government body in charge of managing relations with Beijing, rebuked Ma for “belittling” Taiwan and ignoring the fact that Taiwan has never been part of the People’s Republic of China.
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