China-Taiwan conflict: This will be the second trip of US lawmakers to Taiwan this month.
Five members of the US House of Representatives are expected to arrive in Taiwan on Friday for a short trip focused on meetings with the island’s defense ministry, Taiwan’s official central news agency. reported on Thursday.
The trip comes as China ramps up military and political pressure to assert its claim to the island, sparking anger in Taipei, where the government has vowed to protect the island. defend Taiwan’s freedom and democracy.
The report said the delegation will include Mark Takano, Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, and Colin Allred, Elissa Slotkin, Sara Jacobs and Nancy Mace, and will meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense declined to comment. The de facto US embassy in Taipei did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The five lawmakers are currently in East Asia on a trip to Japan and South Korea over Thanksgiving.
This will be the lawmakers’ second trip to Taiwan this month.
China’s military conducted a combat readiness patrol in the direction of the Taiwan Strait earlier this month, after the country’s Defense Ministry condemned a visit to Taiwan by a US congressional delegation it said was a arrived by military plane.
The United States, like most countries with no official relations with Taiwan, is the most important supplier of arms and international support to the democratically ruled island, much to the anger of North Korea. Terrible.
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