A bipartisan congressional delegation has arrived in Taiwan, drawing further criticism from China a day after House Speaker McCarthy met with the island’s president.
The lawmakers’ arrival in Taiwan comes as China, which claims the island as its territory, is still fuming over a meeting in California on Wednesday between McCarthy and Taiwanese President. Tsai, who is transiting through the United States on her way back from a trip to Guatemala and Belize, is scheduled to return to Taiwan on Friday and will meet with McCaul’s delegation on Saturday.
The White House says that visits by high-level Taiwanese officials are routine and that China should not use Tsai’s travel through the U.S. as a “pretext” for greater aggression against Taiwan. Taiwan was also watching a Chinese aircraft carrier that its defense minister, Chiu Kuo-cheng, said was about 200 nautical miles off Taiwan’s east coast on Wednesday. Chiu told reporters that although the carrier group was in the area for training purposes, the timing was “quite sensitive.”The U.S.
Lai said Taiwan, which regularly buys defensive weapons from the U.S., would do its utmost to protect itself as well.
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