McCarthy Visit to Taiwan ‘Just a Matter of Timing’: Taiwanese Official

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on April 5, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Taiwan still anticipates Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will visit the self-ruled island in the near future despite President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the House Speaker in California this week drawing sharp criticism from China’s communist regime.

“I extended an invite to McCarthy to come visit before he became House speaker,” You Si-kun, the speaker of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, told reporters in Taipei on April 7, Bloomberg reported.