US Lawmakers Vow Arms Support for Taiwan After China’s Drills
- Taiwan leader met US lawmakers days after Beijing’s exercise
- McCaul calls to speed up shipment of backlog of weapons sales
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US lawmakers expressed support for Taiwan’s defense in a trip to the self-ruled democracy just two days after China ended its biggest military exercise in a year around the island.
“We have to provide that deterrence here,” said Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a joint press briefing with Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung on Monday. Lin called the trip an “important gesture of solidarity that shows America stands firmly with democratic Taiwan.”