China Warns Taiwan Leader to Avoid McCarthy as She Visits US
- Beijing says it will respond if Tsai meets the House speaker
- Taiwan president is set to make pair of stopovers in the US
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China warned the US and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen that any meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would be a serious provocation, raising the stakes for her trip to the US.
Tsai left Taipei on Wednesday bound for New York on a plane that was guarded by F-16 fighters as it headed over the Pacific. She’ll later visit two Central American allies, and on the way home she’s planning to stop in Los Angeles, where she’s expected to meet with McCarthy.