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As Tsai Meets McCarthy, Experts Warn: War Over Taiwan Would Run Through U.S.

As Tsai Meets McCarthy, Experts Warn: War Over Taiwan Would Run Through U.S.

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING - As Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday fulfills a historic meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the specter of strained Sino-U.S. relations is gripping security experts in a way that might not seem immediately obvious.

For context, when former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Tsai in Taipei last year, the visit spawned a series of war games. Chinese armed forces conducted live fire drills a mere 80 miles from the island, while Communist leadership – which has claimed Taiwan as its own since Nationalist armies fled there in 1949 – decried Pelosi's visit as a “major political provocation.” 

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