Taiwan still anticipates Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will visit the self-ruled island in the near future despite President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the House Speaker in California this week drawing sharp criticism from China’s communist regime.
“I extended an invite to McCarthy to come visit before he became House speaker,” You Si-kun, the speaker of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, told reporters in Taipei on April 7, Bloomberg reported.
You made the remarks alongside House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who is leading a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers in the Capitol this week to discuss bolstering the U.S. economic and defense relationship with Taiwan….}