U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) calls it a “badge of honor” that the regime in Beijing on April 13 sanctioned him in retaliation for his recent visit to Taiwan and asserted that his efforts send a “seriously wrong signal.”
The Texas Republican lawmaker last week led a bipartisan delegation to democratically ruled Taiwan to discuss strengthening economic and defense ties in the face of growing Chinese aggression in the region. Meeting with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen during the trip, McCaul pledged that the United States wouldn’t bow to Chinese threats and that he would help speed up weapon sales and provide training to Taiwan’s military….
