Taiwanese President Tsai met with Republican House Speaker McCarthy on the 5th ahead of the January elections next year, and Ma Ying-jeou, former president of the opposition Kuomintang, visited China earlier to start a “election proxy war.”
Taiwan's President Tsai, unable to run before the January election due to his term limit, traveled to the United States to meet with the Republican House Speaker and receive a promise of arms support, supporting the Democratic Progressive Party.
Ma Ying-jeou, former president of the opposition Nationalist Party, has been visiting China since the 27th of last month. did.
"We will not act recklessly, but we will not allow being bullied," Tsai said at a meeting with Congressmen including Chairman McCarthy at the Reagan Library in the United States. I find myself again in a world that cannot be underestimated," suggesting 'preparation for the election'.
Regarding the meeting at the Reagan Library, a symbol of the Republican Party, the New York Times said, “It was a political and diplomatic compromise for both sides. The meeting with Mr. McCarthy, the second in line for the presidency, was the highest level of government welcome a Taiwanese president had ever enjoyed on American soil, but it still fell short of an audience with the US president.” So he met with President Tsai and promised to show his defiance to China, but retreated to a less risky visit to his hometown in both Washington and Taipei.”
Chairman McCarthy replaced the visit to Taiwan with a meeting at the President's Reagan Library, and said at a press conference about arms support, "US support for the Taiwanese people will remain resolute, unshakable and bipartisan."
As for Taiwan's arms support, as the confrontation between the US Democratic Party and the Republican Party grew, the Biden administration's'200 million dollars per year support program' was replaced at the end of last year with "loan guarantees to Taiwanese companies rich in cash."
The closed-door talks between the two sides on the 5th at the Reagan Library focused on arms support, and Democratic Congressman Moulton, who was in attendance, told the NYT, “President Tsai said he did not think an attack from Beijing was imminent.”
Regarding the conflict between the two parties, the NYT said, “The Republican Party criticized the Biden administration for refusing to clearly declare that the United States will militarily defend Taiwan if China attempts an invasion.” I accepted the position, but my aides withdrew it.”
Congress last year approved a pilot program to provide Taiwan with up to $200 million for military training and arms purchases, and $100 million annually from existing stocks.
Taiwan's defense ministry said in a press release on the 5th that a Chinese aircraft carrier group was in the waters off the southeast coast of Taiwan on the day President Tsai met with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.
China fired missiles as a wargame near Taiwan right after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democratic Party) visited Taiwan in August of last year.
"We must continue arms sales to Taiwan and ensure that those sales reach Taiwan in a very timely manner," said US House Speaker McCarthy at a joint press conference with President Tsai on the 5th. must," he said.
Reuters reported that Tsai quoted former US President Reagan as saying, "To keep the peace, we must be strong."
“Standing with President Tsai in front of the blue-and-white Boeing aircraft that Reagan was inaugurated as president in the 1980s, McCarthy called the friendship between Taiwanese and the American people ‘an issue of great importance to the free world,’” said Reuters. At a press conference attended by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, McCarthy said he had discussed how to speed up arms delivery to Taiwan.”
Regarding former President Ma Ying-jeou's visit to China, former editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party's 'Learning Times' Deng Yuan said that the purpose of the victory and re-election of the opposition party, the pro-China Nationalist Party of China in the presidential election next January, was "China is the former president's 'Republic of China' remarks. Yonhap News reported on the 6th, saying that not stopping it is to reduce the intensity of confrontation between the two sides and to consider the year-end election campaign that will start ahead of the Taiwanese presidential election in January next year.