The Pentagon is preparing for United States Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit to Taiwan later this year.
Punchbowl News reported the development on Monday, citing an official directly involved in the talks.
Biden administration officials anticipate McCarthy will visit Taiwan sometime in the spring, the report said.
Following McCarthy's election as Speaker earlier this month, Republicans are set to make countering China's force a major pillar of their new majority in the House.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is set to visit Taiwan later this year. Pictured: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy at the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 12, 2023
McCarthy previously said in the lead-up to the mid-term elections last year that he would visit Taiwan is he became Speaker.
He had supported his predecessor Nancy Pelosi's historic trip to the country when she visited last year which had heightened tensions between the Beijing and Washington.
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives flew to Taipei on a US Air Force jet in August 2022 along with five other members of Congress.
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