The President of Taiwan is expected to meet with the Speaker of the American House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in California next month. The Chinese are angry about this and claim that they will respond harshly to such a step. China does not accept the fact that Taiwan is an independent democracy and seeks to annex it to China
China has threatened to “fight back decisively” if US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her visit to the United States. The warning came as President Ing-wen Tsai is scheduled to visit Guatemala and Belize, a country on the Caribbean Sea and is expected to pass through New York and California in the US.
Although not officially confirmed, she is expected to meet McCarthy while in California. China, which claims that Democratic Taiwan is part of China, has repeatedly warned US officials not to meet Taiwan’s president. China made many provocations around Taiwan last August with numerous flights into Taiwan’s airspace, when then-House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, visited the island.
Zhu Panglian, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Relations with China, told Chinese media that Tsai’s trip to the U.S. is not just a way to pass through an airport or hotel on her way to another country, but to meet American officials and lawmakers. “If she has contact with Yu.” Mr. McCarthy, this will be another provocation that will seriously violate the one-China principle, harm China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and destroy peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” she said.
“We are strongly opposed and will definitely take steps to resolutely fight back,” added Jo, without giving details. The U.S. claims that Taiwan’s presidents’ defection in the U.S. en route to another country is commonplace, and that China should not use Tsai’s trip to take any aggressive action against Taiwan.
Taiwan’s presidents regularly pass through the US when visiting diplomatic allies in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific, which, although not official visits, the parties hold high-level meetings.
She has visited the US four times since taking office for the first time in 2016, during which she met with Republican senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, with each trip becoming more official than the last.