U.S. Congress Members Meet Taiwan Leader

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has met with a delegation of U.S. Congress members, in a further sign of support among American lawmakers for the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory. The meeting on Monday comes less than two week after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit, which prompted days of threatening military exercises by China, including the firing of missiles over the island and into the Taiwan Strait. China has also sent warplanes and navy ships across the median line that has long been a buffer between the sides that separated amid civil war in 1949. China regards such contacts with the island as support for its independence from Beijing.