As Free China’s President Meets McCarthy, Count on Rhetoric, Not Reprisals, From Beijing

Statements from the communist regime were bereft of more than vague threats.

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Supporters of Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, wait for her arrival at Los Angeles, April 4, 2023. AP/Damian Dovarganes

Beijing is likely to stick to rhetoric more than reprisals in retaliation for the meeting of the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, Wednesday afternoon with Speaker McCarthy and other members of Congress in the seclusion of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles.

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