Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday met with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy despite threats of unspecified retaliation from China, with the leader of the self-ruled island strident in her defense of democracy.After a meeting with a bipartisan group of more than a dozen U.S. lawmakers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Tsai and McCarthy both highlighted that relations between Taiwan and the United States remain strong."It is no secret that today the peace that we have maintained and the democracy which we have worked hard t…READ FULL ARTICLE
