US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, marking the highest-profile gathering of an American official and the self-ruled island’s leader since McCarthy’s predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, met Tsai in Taipei eight months ago.
McCarthy, meeting Tsai at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, was joined by a bipartisan group of 17 other lawmakers including Pete Aguilar of California, the third-ranking House leader in the Democratic Party, as well as 10 members from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
