Risking China's anger, US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has hosted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen as a "great friend of America" in a fraught show of American support at a rare high-level, bipartisan meeting on American soil.Speaking carefully to avoid unnecessarily escalating tensions with Beijing, Tsai and McCarthy steered clear of calls from hard-liners in the US for a more confrontational stance toward China in defence of self-ruled Taiwan.Instead, the two leaders stood side by side on Wednesday in a show of unity at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, acknowledging China's threats against the island government but speaking only of maintaining longstanding US policy.
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