35 minutes agoTaiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is welcomed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as she arrives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.abc.net.au/news/us-house-leader-taiwan-president-meet-as-china-protests/102194712Risking China's ire, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has welcomed Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to a high-level meeting on United State soil as a "great friend of America" in a fraught show of US support.
The formal trappings of the meeting, and the senior rank of some of the elected officials, in themselves threatened to run afoul of China's position that any interaction between US and Taiwanese officials is a challenge to China's claim of sovereignty over the island. The United States broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government.The US acknowledges a "one-China" policy in which Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, but it does not endorse China's claim to the island and remains Taiwan's key provider of military and defence assistance.
The US House speaker is third in line to the presidency - not second, that’s the VP
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