TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Five U.S. lawmakers are in Taiwan on Friday. The trip comes just a few weeks after a group of six Republican lawmakers visited the island. That congressional delegation met with President Tsai Ing-wen, National Security Secretary General Wellington Koo and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, among others.
It’s the third visit by U.S. lawmakers this year. In June, three members of Congress flew to Taiwan to donate badly needed vaccines at a time when the island was struggling to get enough.
The Biden administration has also invited Taiwan to a Summit for Democracy next month, a move that drew a sharp rebuke from China.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday, "What the U.S. did proves that the so-called democracy is just a pretext and tool for it to pursue geopolitical goals, suppress other countries, divide the world, serve its own interest and maintain its hegemony in the world.”
That's a pretty soft rebuke from China considering their previous tone (see 60 minutes Australia aired on 11/14). It doesn't make anything better but it doesn't make anything worse.
But when US representatives are openly touching down, MULTIPLE TIMES, in what is perceived as a war front...that's meant to signal BUSINESS. That's not just a vacation.
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