House Speaker Kevin McCarthy welcomed Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen for a historic meeting on US soil.
China responded to a visit by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan last August with its largest live-fire drills in decades, included firing a missile over the island.Angry Chinese officials have pledged a sharp but unspecified response to the meeting with Mr McCarthy.
The US broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government. While the US acknowledges the “one-China” policy in which Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, it does not endorse China’s claim to the island and remains Taiwan’s key provider of military and defence assistance.
Wednesday’s session is the first known meeting between a House speaker and a Taiwanese president on American territory since the US broke off formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
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