McCarthy meets Cai Yingwen to speed up weapons transportation

McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives, met with Taiwan Cai Yingwen in California on Wednesday (April 5th), emphasizing that it is necessary to speed up the transportation of weapons to Taiwan in order to cope with the increasing threat of China.

Reuters reported that McCarthy ranked third among the US leadership and was the highest official of Taiwan leaders in the United States for decades.The meeting place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in the Saga Valley of California.

Cai Yingwen thanked the US Congress for supporting Taiwan when democratic was threatened, and mentioned that she had cited former US President Reagan's words that McCarthy and other Republican and Democratic Party legislators were that her belief was "in order to maintain peace, we must be strong"Essence

Tsai Ing -wen also said, "What I want to add is that we will be more powerful to unite."

Although the United States does not have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, US law stipulates that the United States has obligations to provide self -defense methods for Taiwan.In recent years, with Beijing's continuous pressure on Taiwan, the United States has strengthened interaction with Taipei.

McCarthy attended the press conference with the US two -party legislators who participated in the talks later, and said that he discussed with Tsai Ing -wen how to speed up the transportation of weapons to Taiwan.

McCarthy said: "We must continue to sell weapons to Taiwan and ensure that weapons delivery arrives in Taiwan very timely ... Secondly, we must strengthen economic cooperation with Taiwan, especially in terms of trade and technology."

The Chairman of the China House of Representatives and Republicans Mike Gallagher, a later interview, said in an interview that he wanted to transport fish fork missiles to Taiwan before he planned to transport missiles to Saudi Arabia.

Beijing repeatedly opposed the meeting of the United States and Taiwan.Some scholars have analyzed that McCarthy's meeting with Tsai Ing -wen may bring another serious confrontation of US -China relations.

However, at the press conference, McCarthy said: "China cannot decide who a Speaker of the US House of Representatives can meet with, no matter whether the other party is an enemy or friend."