House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and Representative Young Kim will meet with Cheng Li-wun, a prominent figure within the Kuomintang, which advocates closer engagement with Beijing and supports maintaining peaceful cross-strait relations.
The exercise formed part of broader military maneuvers along Taiwan’s western coast, which faces mainland China.
Xi staged a year of pressure on Japan for an audience at home, and lost the one abroad
On the map that decides a war over Taiwan, China is the trapped one, and Xi tightened the trap himself
Americans want China out of the land, the supply chain, and the phone. The agreement is broad, and it is defensive.
Xi asked whether America would defend Taiwan. The President preserves the ambiguity by design, the public by indecision.
Taiwanese officials, however, said they had received no indication that Washington planned to freeze or alter the deal.
Xi’s remarks on Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by Beijing, came in a closed-door meeting of the leaders of the world’s two largest economies that ran more than two hours, China’s foreign ministry said.
The warning came during a two-day summit focused on trade, Taiwan, Iran and global security. Reuters reported that the meeting lasted more than two hours and included discussions on maintaining the fragile trade truce reached last year.
A White House official said both leaders agreed the Strait of Hormuz should remain open to protect global energy flows.
Taiwan conducted a large live-fire military exercise on the frontline island of Kinmen on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to Beijing for high-level talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping is purging the men he handpicked. The army he is left with cannot fight the war he keeps threatening.
