Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, as part of a delegation led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, met, on Wednesday, with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the Reagan Library in California. KHJ News Washington SC correspondent Matt Kaye reports…
Congresswoman Amata, who supports restoring US diplomatic relations with Taiwan, met with President Tsai for a fifth time, including a visit to Taiwan last August…
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Fast-forward 8-months and Amata, now on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is again standing up for Taiwan as part of a high-level bipartisan delegation led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy—
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…a message Congresswoman Amata embraces in defense of Taiwan and its president…
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Uifa’atali Amata says McCarthy was right to meet with President Tsai—the second such meeting involving a US House Speaker in less than a year—this one, on US soil.
Last August’s trip by, then, Speaker Nancy Pelosi set off weeks of threatening PRC military exercises around Taiwan.
McCarthy says he’s not ruling out his own trip to Taiwan.
