US senator meets Taiwan president amid tensions with China

TAIPEI, 27 August 2022, (TON): US senator Marsha Blackburn met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday, in the second visit by members of Congress since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip earlier this month sharply raised tensions with China.

In her remarks, Tsai pointed to the large-scale military exercises that China launched in response to Pelosi’s visit, as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as posing challenges to democratic governments such as the US and Taiwan.

She said “these developments demonstrate how authoritarian countries are disrupting and threatening the world order.”

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