Speculation has swirled that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy could soon visit the island. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The United States hopes China will not use any visits by US lawmakers to Taiwan as an excuse for military action, a senior US diplomat said on Wednesday, adding that all countries should warn Beijing against conflict over the island.then speaker of the US House of Representatives, to democratically governed Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory.
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told an event at the Brookings Institution think tank that the US was committed to support Taiwan and its ability to defend itself under its one-China policy. Ms Sherman, the State Department’s second-ranked diplomat, drew on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a lesson for China against any moves in the Taiwan Strait, saying the war had increased energy and food insecurity for the whole world, as well as inflationary pressures.
Ms Sherman said Washington had “growing concern” about China’s “no limits” partnership with Russia and its support for Moscow’s Ukraine invasion, even as it was attempting to increase its global standing by saying it would help mediate an end to the conflict. She said China could not have it both ways.
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