McCarthy Confirms Plan to Meet With Taiwan’s President in US

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed on March 7 that he’ll meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in the United States next month, adding that the meeting wouldn’t replace his anticipated trip to the democratically governed island.
“That has nothing to do with my travel and if I would go to Taiwan,” the California Republican told reporters, adding that “China can’t tell me where or when to go.”
The Chinese Communist Party has long claimed Taiwan as its territory and has never disavowed using force to take it over. That ambition has been increasingly on display in recent years as the regime steps up military harassment, sending warplanes and ships toward the island on a near-daily basis, which experts have termed as a “gray zone” tactic aimed at eroding public morale and exhausting Taiwan’s defensive resources….}