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...Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has convinced US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to meet in California rather than Taipei to avoid an aggressive Chinese military response, as tensions run high between Beijing...
...US House speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, his office confirmed, amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing....
...US House speaker Kevin McCarthy welcomed Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen to his home state of California on Wednesday, becoming the most high-profile US official to do so on American soil....
...Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen urged continued support for her country and warned that its democracy was “under threat” following a high-profile meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California...
...China has threatened to retaliate if Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen meets US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming trip to the US, amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing....
...China held a second day of military manoeuvres around Taiwan on Sunday in retaliation against President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with senior US lawmakers including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California...
...Taiwan has rejected Chinese threats over a planned meeting on Wednesday between President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, abandoning its restrained approach to launch a rhetorical broadside...
...US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen plan to meet in California rather than Taipei in a bid to avoid an aggressive response from Beijing to a meeting on the island....
...Speaker Kevin McCarthy....
...Tsai this week held the highest-profile meeting with a US official on American soil, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy....
...Read more on Tsai Ing-wen’s visit here....
...US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will host a high-profile meeting with Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen in California today despite the risk of provoking fresh military exercises by China around the island...
...Tsai is using her trip for two “transits” through the US on which she is engaging with officials, including a planned meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week....
...Read more on Tsai Ing-wen’s visit here...
...US House Speaker hosts Taiwan’s president: Tsai Ing-wen will meet Kevin McCarthy in California, a move that Beijing has called a “provocation”....
...On her last visit in April, Tsai met the House speaker Kevin McCarthy, the highest-ranking American official to meet a Taiwanese president on US soil....
...Speaking in California following his meeting with Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen, McCarthy also urged the French leader to use his trip to Beijing to send a message to the Chinese leadership....
...China has threatened to retaliate if Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen meets US House speaker Kevin McCarthy during a brief US visit as planned....
...Taiwan has rejected Beijing’s threats over a meeting between President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, comparing China to the Cold War-era Soviet Union....
...McCarthy: US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen today in California, despite Beijing warning the meeting would constitute “another provocation” and pledging to retaliate...
...Beijing launched the manoeuvres on Saturday to “punish” Taiwan after President Tsai Ing-wen met House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last week....
...Kathrin Hille (“Taiwan’s deepening political divide”, The Big Read, April 6) writes correctly of Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen’s landslide re-election in 2020....
...“punish” Tsai for a US trip that featured a public meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy....
...But after President Tsai Ing-wen met Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last week, China’s military response was more narrowly defined....
...She will drive home this point when she meets US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and 17 other members of Congress on Wednesday in California....
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