Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on April 6 drew a comparison between Adolf Hitler and Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
McCaul’s remarks were made in a meeting with Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te in Taipei.
“This struggle for global power, the balance of power that we find ourselves in today, often reminds me of my father’s generation, often referred to as the greatest in the United States,” McCaul said on Thursday in Taipei, according to NBC News.
“Then we had Hitler, and today we have Putin and Chairman Xi,” he added.
McCaul, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a bipartisan delegation of legislators to Taiwan on Thursday amid criticism from China over House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Los Angeles the day before….