US House Speaker McCarthy to meet Taiwan president Tsai this week

The office of United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has confirmed that the Republican leader will meet Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen in California this week, in a move condemned by Beijing.

McCarthy’s office said on Monday that the speaker will host a “bipartisan meeting” on Wednesday with Tsai, who will be travelling through the US on her way back to Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China claims as its own.

The California visit will be the second of two stops for Tsai in the US, as she makes her way to and from Central America. Last week, on her way to visit diplomatic allies in Guatemala and Belize, Tsai made a stopover in New York, where she spoke at the Hudson Institute think tank.

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