US Speaker McCarthy meets Taiwan’s Tsai despite China pressure

United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has met Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen in his home state of California, a historic visit that has already sparked condemnation from China, which claims the self-ruled democracy as its own.
The two leaders sat down together at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, approximately 55 kilometres (34 miles) from Los Angeles.
The closed-door meeting makes McCarthy the highest-ranking official to meet a Taiwanese president on US soil since 1979, the year Washington established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China.

Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna reports from Washington, DC.

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