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US House Speaker To Meet Tsai In California To Avoid China Ire-FT

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TheFT is reportingthat Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will meet with Speaker of the US House of Representatives in California, rather than Taipei, to avoid raising the ire of Beijing.

  • FT: "[McCarthy] and Tsai have now agreed to meet in California instead, in a move designed to avoid a demonstration of force by the People’s Liberation Army similar to when then-speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August. “We shared some intelligence about what the Chinese Communist party is recently up to and the kinds of threats they pose,” a senior Taiwanese official said about information Taipei had provided to McCarthy’s team."

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