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    Taiwan’s president meets with Kevin McCarthy in California. What her visit says about Taiwan’s future

    by Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times Apr 05, 2023 4 minutes
    Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, right, greets Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, left, on arrival at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for a bipartisan meeting on April 5, 2023, in Simi Valley, California.

    TAIPEI, Taiwan — In Southern California, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday in a show of the strength of relations between Taipei and Washington.

    On the other side of the world, Tsai’s predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, is in China on his own symbolic sojourn, touting instead the historic ties between Taiwan and the mainland.

    The simultaneous visits to rival superpowers by Taiwanese presidents past and present underscore the increasing precariousness of peace on the democratically ruled island, and the uncertain path to maintaining it as relations between China, the U.S. and Taiwan have grown strained.

    Those frictions have raised

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