The meeting by a bipartisan delegation from Washington occurred as China heightens demands for the United States to back away from support for the island democracy.
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    Last year, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hosted Lai’s predecessor at a gathering of members of Congress in California, marking the highest-level meeting to date on U.S. soil.

    Last week, the Chinese government took the rare step of calling for an end to congressional delegations to Taiwan, going beyond its more general opposition to interactions between Taiwanese and U.S. officials.

    “They sent me a warning: ‘Do not visit Taiwan because you’re in violation of the one-China policy,’” McCaul told reporters Monday at a joint news conference with Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung.

    In May, months after Gallagher led a congressional delegation to Taiwan, Beijing said it would freeze the congressman’s current and future assets in China and deny him entry to the country.

    But with a U.S. presidential election looming, Republicans have also been increasingly critical of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda, including what they characterize as an insufficiently bold response to Chinese aggression.

    “We need to communicate strength and deterrence to communist China, which means that we follow through with these defense articles,” Rep. Andy Barr, a co-chair of the Congressional Taiwan Caucus and a delegation member, said in an interview Monday.

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