A new delegation of US congressmen landed in Taiwan on Sunday, 12 days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit, which China called an affront.
According to a statement from the American Institute of Taiwan, released by the Europa Press agency, the delegation will meet during the two-day visit with representatives of the island government where in 1949 the nationalist government of the Kuomintang took refuge, defeated by the communist forces of Mao Zedong in the Chinese civil war.
The bipartisan group, headed by Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey, will discuss “bilateral relations, regional security, trade, investment, climate change and other issues of mutual concern,” the statement added.
The senator is accompanied by MPs Alan Lowenthal, John Garamendi, Don Beyer and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen.
This meeting comes after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the territory at the beginning of the month sparked political outrage in Beijing, which claims Taiwan, which has de facto but not formal independence, as an integral part of the People’s Republic of China, which periodically threatens the possibility of armed intervention to prevent Taiwan’s attempts to declare its independence.
Source: Observadora
