Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen meets U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Los Angeles at 1:00 p.m. ET on April 5.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) deliver statements to the media after their meeting at 3:00 p.m. ET on April 5.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen arrives in New York City at 3:00 p.m. ET on March 29. 

ET on April 5 after meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

During the 2022 visit, Graham’s delegation met with then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

The group included then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and they met with then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and senior security officials.

Zhu participated in protests against then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen in 2019 on her visit to New York. Photos of the protest show him standing beside Linda Sun, a onetime aide to New York Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul.

After the election of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in 2016, cross-strait relations chilled, and China blocked Taiwan's future participation.

The last known exception was in December 2016, when Trump accepted a call from then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen after his first electoral victory.

Even Trump's prior contact with Taiwan, a December 2016 call with then-President Tsai Ing-wen, came before he took office, as president-elect.

On Dec. 2, 2016, Lai’s predecessor, President Tsai Ing-wen, called then-President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his election win. Trump was not yet in office, so the call was one between a head of state and a private citizen.

In 2016, then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen had a congratulatory phone call with then-President-elect Trump after his election victory.

Then-President-elect Trump held a rare phone call with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s predecessor, Tsai Ing-wen, in December 2016.

Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) meets Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan on Feb. 22.

In April 2023, during a visit by then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Sun took photos of protesters and sent them to the Chinese official.

Another group of U.S. lawmakers visit Taiwan with a message, sharing it during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. For the first time, the Netherlands is publicly condemning China's cyber espionage.

Ing-wen.

Czech President Petr Pavel, after he was elected in January 2023, accepted a call from then Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, making him the first EU leader to directly speak with a president of Taiwan, and drawing the ire of Beijing.

In 2019, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen traveled to New York City and held a banquet on July 12. Taiwan’s representatives there invited Cuomo to join the event.

Solomon cited several other incidents in which Sun allegedly exerted her influence to thwart Taiwan from reaching the governor’s office, including blocking an invitation to Cuomo to join a banquet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in New York City

—Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen praised the strengthening of ties between Taiwan and Canada during her first visit to Toronto since leaving office.

While Cuomo was governor, then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen hosted an event at a hotel in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Taiwan’s local representative sent an invitation to Cuomo.

Both letters, co-signed by 20 other House Republicans, said that excluding Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen from the meeting would send the wrong message to China.

“Unfortunately, your agency’s response failed to adequately address our request or provide a plan of action to officially extend an invitation to President Tsai Ing-wen.

A demonstrator holds the flags of Taiwan and the United States in support of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen during a stop-over after her visit to Latin America in Burlingame, Calif., on Jan. 14, 2017.

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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen presided over the launch ceremony of the submarine "Narwhal"—which is also referred to as "Hai Kun" in Taiwan—in the southern city of Kaohsiung on Sept. 28.

Then, in June 2019, Liang alerted Sun that there would be a protest against Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen when she visited New York in July 2019, according to court records. Sun later joined the protest, the records show.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at The Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on April 5, 2023.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in a speech in Taipei on Saturday expressed her condolences to the families of the victims and said she would travel to Pingtung to visit those affected by the disaster, according to Taiwanese news outlet Focus Taiwan.