A US delegation has traveled to Taiwan after China held drills around the self-governed island in a show of strength. Washington is the island's most important ally and supplier of military goods. A US congressional delegation met on Monday on a visit aiming to show Washington's continued commitment to Taiwan amid which claims the self-ruled island as its own.
The visit, the first congressional visit to Taiwan since Lai's inauguration, comes days after that Beijing said were to Beijing also said it had ordered the exercises as whom it calls a "dangerous separatist." What was said during the visit? Michael McCaul, the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who led the delegation, said he and his colleagues stood in "strong support of this beautiful island." At the meeting with Lai, McCaul, a Republican from the US state of Texas, condemned what he called "intimidating military exercises.
" He said they showed China was "not interested in taking Taiwan by peaceful means". "All democracies must stand together against aggression and tyranny," McCaul said. Andy Barr, the co-chair of the Taiwan caucus in the US Congress, told a news conference that there "should be no doubt, there should be no skepticism in the United States, Taiwan or anywhere in the world, of American resolve to maintain the status quo and peace in the Taiwan Strait.
" Lai thanked the lawmakers for their support, saying he hoped the US Congress would "continue to assist Taiwan in strengthening its self-defens.
