A delegation of US congressmen arrives in Taiwan after China’s great naval drill

NVIDIA President Jensen Huang also arrives in Taipei to participate in an electronics forum

May 26. (EUROPA PRESS) –

A bipartisan delegation of US congressmen arrived in Taiwan this Sunday, a day after China will conclude one of the largest naval exercises in recent months around the island in response to the inauguration, a week ago, of the new Taiwanese president, and declared independentist, Lai Ching Tei.

The delegation has been led by Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Lai is scheduled to meet with lawmakers on Monday to discuss peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, trade relations between Taiwan and the United States and other issues, according to a statement from his office reported by Bloomberg.

The delegation also includes Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif.; Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.; Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif.; Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.

The arrival takes place after the United States Department of State accused China on Saturday of “military provocations” for these exercises, which came to surround the island in what experts considered to be maneuvers consistent with plans to carry out a hypothetical invasion. Of the territory.

Meanwhile, the president and CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, landed in Taipei this Sunday to attend a technology exhibition. His technology company, specialized in the development of graphics cards and whose capitalization amounts to 2.5 billion dollars (2.1 billion euros), receives its chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

“Taiwan is at the epicenter of the world’s technology supply chain,” Huang said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on May 20. “The technology industry is highly dependent on Taiwan and will continue to do so for some time,” she said.