House Republicans Urge Biden Administration to Invite Taiwan President to APEC Summit

A group of House Republicans is calling on the Biden administration to support Taiwan by inviting the island’s democratically elected president to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which will be held in San Francisco in November.
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) made the request in two letters to President Joe Biden (pdf) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (pdf). Both letters, co-signed by 20 other House Republicans, said that excluding Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen from the meeting would send the wrong message to China.
“Excluding Taiwan’s full participation in APEC at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party sends the wrong message and contradicts the U.S. commitment to supporting a free Taiwan and rejecting China’s provocative One-China Policy,” Gooden said in a statement on April 19….}