Are You Sitting Down? Communist China Sanctions the Reagan Library

Communist regime is unhappy over its role in hosting the meeting between Taiwan’s president and the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.

AP/Ringo H.W. Chiu
The Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, and Speaker McCarthy after a Bipartisan Leadership Meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, April 5, 2023. AP/Ringo H.W. Chiu

America’s 40th president would have loved this — Communist China has just sanctioned the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles. What for, and what does it mean to “sanction” an edifice like a library?

The answer is that the library was the setting for a talkfest at which the president of the free Chinese government on Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, was the guest of the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.

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