News Analysis
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers met with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen on April 15, a move that Beijing called “deliberately provocative.” Furthermore, the Chinese regime carried out military drills and deployed frigates, bombers, and fighter planes in the air and sea space around the island nation.
“To abandon Taiwan would be to abandon democracy and freedom. … There’s a backlash growing in the world to thuggery—to the bad guys,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Tsai during their meeting in Taipei.
Graham and five other lawmakers, including Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, arrived in Taiwan on Friday aboard a U.S. Air Force aircraft and were greeted by Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. The group met with Tsai on the same day and planned to meet with Taiwan’s defense minister later in their visit.
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