US Speaker McCarthy defies China warnings to meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen is set to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other American officials at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, a meeting that is being closely watched by China. Tsai's trip to the US is intended to strengthen Taiwan's relations with its limited number of foreign partners and to prove to voters that strengthening ties with the US has been worth the fallout, as Taipei's relations with China steadily deteriorate. China has threatened "countermeasures" after the meeting to show its displeasure, just as it did when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last summer.