Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy greeted Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen for a historic assembly on American soil Wednesday, underscoring US lawmakers' rising assist for the self-ruled island as tensions rise with rival China.
McCarthy greeted Tsai on her arrival on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California.
The assembly exterior Los Angeles comes on what's technically a stopover for President Tsai Ing-wen, after a visit to Latin America to go to Taiwan's few remaining official allies, Guatemala and Belize.
China views any interplay between US and Taiwanese officers as a problem to its declare to the island as its territory. Beijing has reacted to previous conferences with reveals of power and by pulling again on dialogue with america.
China responded to a go to by then-Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August 2022 with its largest live-fire drills in many years, together with firing a missile over the island.
Talking to Euronews on Wednesday after a gathering of NATO overseas affairs ministers in Brussels, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the results if China did make a transfer on Taiwan.
America broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 whereas formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing authorities.
Whereas the US acknowledges the “one-China” coverage wherein Beijing lays declare to Taiwan, it doesn't endorse China’s declare to the island and stays Taiwan’s key supplier of navy and defence help.
Wednesday's interplay is the primary recognized assembly between a Home speaker and a Taiwanese president on American territory because the US broke off formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
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