Speaker Kevin McCarthy is weighing a trip to Taiwan. Instead, he should invite Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to address a joint session of Congress at the end of her term early next year.
Mr. McCarthy’s predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan last summer, and while the trip was well-intentioned, the consequences were regrettable. Beijing seized on Mrs. Pelosi’s trip to establish a “new normal” in the Taiwan Strait, with China now regularly conducting military maneuvers much closer to the island. China more than doubled its fighter-jet incursions into Taiwan’s air-defense zone, from 538 in 2021 to 1,241 in 2022.
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