A delegation of congressional Republicans led by Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Kevin Hern has arrived in Taiwan, where they will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen.
The group, which represents about 150 conservatives in the US lower house, is also scheduled to meet Vice President Lai Ching-te and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, the Taiwanese news agency CNA reports.
The visits of US representatives to Taiwan have been constant in the last two years and have continued even after the crisis between Beijing and Washington caused by the trip to Taipei in August last year of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. , which angered China.
The Asian country also protested angrily when this year the Taiwanese president met in Los Angeles with Pelosi’s successor in office, Kevin McCarthy, and carried out other activities during a stopover in the United States after a tour of Central America.
The self-governing island is also one of the main reasons for friction between China and the United States, since the North American country is Taiwan’s main arms supplier and would defend it in the event of a conflict.
China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, a territory it considers a “rebel province” since Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949 after losing the war against the communist army.
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