Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has commended her successor Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) historic meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California in a rare sign of support.
McCarthy introduced Tsai as a “great friend of America” as he hosted her at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley along with more than a dozen lawmakers from both parties during Wednesday’s rare high-level visit.
The meeting—the first of its kind on American soil—risked further exacerbating tensions with China, which had earlier threatened retaliation if Tsai and McCarthy or other senior U.S. figures were to meet….