The Republican House speaker led an 18-member bipartisan congressional group for the talks with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday.
"Through the past few days, in disregard of China's serious representations and repeated warnings, the United States deliberately greenlighted the transit of Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the Taiwan region, through the United States,"Beijing claims Taiwan as its own under its"one China principle." The U.S.
's jurisdiction. For China, it means an indefinite postponement of its goal to unify both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and potential wiggle room for the island's formal independence in the future—a red line. Taiwan's Foreign Ministry this week called the repeated criticism"increasingly absurd." Only the island's 23.5 million people can decide its future, the Taiwanese government says.
"The Congress, as a part of the U.S. government, is obligated to strictly abide by the foreign policy that the latter has adopted and committed to," the Chinese Embassy in Washington said in a statement in response to the meeting.
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