Members of the US Republican Study Committee arrived in Taiwan on Monday for a five-day visit, during which they are to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and other top officials, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Committee chairman US Representative Kevin Hern is leading the delegation composed of fellow US representatives Burgess Owens, Mike Flood, Mike Collins, Russell Fry and Keith Self, the ministry said in a news release.
Before departing on Friday, they are to meet with Tsai and Vice President William Lai (賴清德), as well as attend a banquet hosted by Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮), it said.
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
They are also to hold discussions with senior government officials and think tank experts to exchange views on topics of importance to Taiwan-US relations, the ministry added, offering its “sincere welcome” to the group.
The visiting lawmakers are all long-term supporters of Taiwan and have acted on that friendship, standing behind any number of US congressional initiatives in support of security, economic and cooperative engagement with Taiwan, it said.
As China continues to unilaterally raise regional tensions, visits by US lawmakers demonstrate their unwavering support for Taiwan, the ministry added.
The Republican Study Committee was founded in 1973 as a study group for conservatives in the US House of Representatives. It is now the largest ideological caucus in Congress with 175 members.
Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung and Taoyuan would issue a decision at 8pm on whether to cancel work and school tomorrow due to forecasted heavy rain, Keelung Mayor Hsieh Kuo-liang (謝國樑) said today. Hsieh told reporters that absent some pressing reason, the four northern cities would announce the decision jointly at 8pm. Keelung is expected to receive between 300mm and 490mm of rain in the period from 2pm today through 2pm tomorrow, Central Weather Administration data showed. Keelung City Government regulations stipulate that school and work can be canceled if rain totals in mountainous or low-elevation areas are forecast to exceed 350mm in
EVA Airways president Sun Chia-ming (孫嘉明) and other senior executives yesterday bowed in apology over the death of a flight attendant, saying the company has begun improving its health-reporting, review and work coordination mechanisms. “We promise to handle this matter with the utmost responsibility to ensure safer and healthier working conditions for all EVA Air employees,” Sun said. The flight attendant, a woman surnamed Sun (孫), died on Friday last week of undisclosed causes shortly after returning from a work assignment in Milan, Italy, the airline said. Chinese-language media reported that the woman fell ill working on a Taipei-to-Milan flight on Sept. 22
COUNTERMEASURE: Taiwan was to implement controls for 47 tech products bound for South Africa after the latter downgraded and renamed Taipei’s ‘de facto’ offices The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still reviewing a new agreement proposed by the South African government last month to regulate the status of reciprocal representative offices, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday. Asked about the latest developments in a year-long controversy over Taiwan’s de facto representative office in South Africa, Lin during a legislative session said that the ministry was consulting with legal experts on the proposed new agreement. While the new proposal offers Taiwan greater flexibility, the ministry does not find it acceptable, Lin said without elaborating. The ministry is still open to resuming retaliatory measures against South
1.4nm WAFERS: While TSMC is gearing up to expand its overseas production, it would also continue to invest in Taiwan, company chairman and CEO C.C. Wei said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has applied for permission to construct a new plant in the Central Taiwan Science Park (中部科學園區), which it would use for the production of new high-speed wafers, the National Science and Technology Council said yesterday. The council, which supervises three major science parks in Taiwan, confirmed that the Central Taiwan Science Park Bureau had received an application on Friday from TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, to commence work on the new A14 fab. A14 technology, a 1.4 nanometer (nm) process, is designed to drive artificial intelligence transformation by enabling faster computing and greater power
RSS