LOS ANGELES, California: United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was to sit down with Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday for a highly symbolic meeting in California that has already prompted outrage and dire warnings from China.

The meeting outside Los Angeles comes on what was technically a stopover for Tsai after her two-country trip in Latin America to visit Taiwan's few remaining official allies.

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