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U.S. lawmakers emerged from their meeting Wednesday with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen determined to figure out why the U.S. has yet to deliver key weapons systems to Taiwan, according to one of the participants.
Rep. Ryan Zinke, Montana Republican, said both Democrats and Republicans in the meeting want to figure out what the holdup is, and see whether it requires more legislation from Congress to get Taiwan the weapons it has bought but which are stuck in what the administration calls a supply chain backlog.
The U.S. and Taiwanese delegations also discussed shared vulnerabilities to China, including a Chinese chokehold on key minerals for electric-vehicle batteries and a dominant position in microchip production.
The meeting took place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, and involved a bipartisan U.
