(Washington Comprehensive News) McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives, will meet with Taiwan Cai Yingwen on Wednesday (April 5) in California.This will be the first time in Taiwan to meet with the House of Representatives in the United States. Mainland China said that this move will be a provocation.

According to Reuters, McCarthy's office announced in a statement on Monday (April 3) that McCarthy will be on Wednesday in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and Cai, TaiwanTalks in English.

Tsai Ing -wen launched the "Democratic Partner's Journey to the Gong" on March 29. During the visit and return journey of the diplomatic relations, it passed the United States New York and Los Angeles.

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statement said that Tsai Ing -wen would stay in California during the return journey and meet with McCarthy.The US media reported earlier that about 20 US Congress members planned to accompany McCarthy to meet with Cai Yingwen.

Zhu Fenglian, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of Mainland China, warned on the day of Cai Yingwen that if Tsai Ing -wen has contact with McCarthy, the mainland "will take measures to be taken back firmly."Officials in the Chinese Embassy in Washington also "urged the United States not to continue playing fire on Taiwan."

In August last year, after the former House of Representatives of the United States Perosi visited Taiwan, the PLA launched a large -scale large -scale Taiwan military exercise in Taiwan near Taiwan.

As for whether China will take countermeasures or conduct military exercises to respond to the contact of McCarthy and Tsai Ing -wen, a spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry Mao Ning said at a regular press conference on Monday that "China will take firm measures to maintain itself to maintain itselfSovereignty and territorial integrity. "

McCarthy, who was elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in early January this year, has shown intention to visit Taiwan last year.He met with Tsai Ing -wen in California and was regarded by the outside world as the sanctuary of excessive anger in Beijing.