McCarthy Courts Trouble in Retreat From Taiwan

A troubling signal about American resolve at a moment of heightened tension with Communist China.

AP/Chiang Ying-ying, file
Soldiers lower the national flag at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall at Taipei, Taiwan, July 30, 2022. AP/Chiang Ying-ying, file

Speaker McCarthy’s retreat from his avowed plan to travel to Free China to meet there with the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, sends a troubling message about American resolve at a moment of heightened tension with the Communist Chinese regime at Beijing. Mr. McCarthy’s volte-face, first reported by the Financial Times, is being framed as a request from Taiwan “to avoid an aggressive response from Beijing.”

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