1.媒体来源:
Financial Times 英国金融时报
2.记者署名:
Kathrin Hille (台北)
Demetri Sevastopulo (华府)
3.完整新闻标题:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy to meet Taiwan’s president in US to avoid
China’s ire
美国众议院议长麦卡锡 (Kevin McCarthy) 将和台湾总统在美国见面
以避免来自中国的怒火
4.完整新闻内文:
Two sides agree to meet in California, with Tsai Ing-wen also due
to speak at Reagan Library
副标：
双方同意在加州会面，蔡英文也将在加州雷根总统纪念图书馆发表谈话。
Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has convinced US Speaker of
the House Kevin McCarthy to meet in California instead of in
Taipei in a bid to avoid an aggressive response from Beijing.
McCarthy, a California Republican who became Speaker in January,
had said last summer that he intended to visit Taiwan if elected
to the leadership post.
But he and Tsai have now agreed to meet in California instead, to
avoid a demonstration of force by the People’s Liberation Army
similar to when then-speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in
August.
Pelosi’s visit was only the second Taiwan visit by a Speaker
since Newt Gingrich in 1997. After her trip, the People’s
Liberation Army held huge exercises, including firing missiles
over Taiwan for the first time.
Tsai’s reluctance to have McCarthy visit signals the impact of
China’s military posturing to constrain Taiwan and undermine its
de facto independence.
“We shared some intelligence about what the Chinese Communist
party is recently up to and the kinds of threats they pose,” a
senior Taiwanese official said about information Taipei had
provided to McCarthy’s team.
The official said China was “not in a good situation right now”
and that it seemed more and more decisions would be made by Xi
Jinping and his inner circle.
Tsai will visit both California and New York in early April as
part of a trip to Central America. She has also decided to accept
an invitation to speak at the Reagan Library in southern
California, according to several people including a senior
Taiwanese official.
The Taiwanese president, whose term ends in January, also visited
the Reagan Library in 2018 and made remarks but not a formal
speech.
McCarthy’s office declined to comment. The Ronald Reagan
Presidential Foundation and Institute confirmed that it had
invited Tsai to speak.
The People’s Republic of China claims Taiwan as its territory
although it has never ruled the island.
简略翻译：
考虑到目前中国的复杂情势，为了避免在 Pelosi 访台后不久再度有众议院
议长访台，双方同意将会面地点改到美国加州。
理想的时间点将落在今年四月，蔡英文将访问中南美并过境美国。过去蔡英文
在 2018 年也曾造访雷根图书馆，但仅发表非正式的谈话。
此次过境美国，蔡英文将造访纽约和加州。雷根图书馆也证实已经邀请蔡英文
发表演说。
虽然目前 McCarthy 办公室仍不愿证实目前的计画，但这次的会面将是本次美
国期中选举前 McCarthy 曾许诺造访台湾的另类实现。
5.完整新闻连结 (或短网址)不可用YAHOO、LINE、MSN等转载媒体:
https://www.ft.com/content/69b627fc-ab7f-4b19-9ea3-5c308d81c6ef
6.备注:
英国野鸡杂志都不可信了
遑论野鸡报纸？