China Threatens Retaliation If Tsai & McCarthy Meet

March 29, 2023 4:16 am

BEIJING (AP) — China has threatened “resolute countermeasures” over a planned meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming transit visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy China claims as its own territory. A spokesperson for the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office did not give details at a news conference Wednesday, other than to demand that no U.S. officials meet with her. Tsai is scheduled to transit through New York on March 30 before heading to Guatemala and Belize. She’s expected to stop in Los Angeles on April 5 on her way back to Taiwan. That’s when the meeting with McCarthy is tentatively scheduled.