Taiwan has ‘right to remain free’, US senator says in visit criticised by China

<p>Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer meet island’s president in Taipei as Beijing says trip sends ‘gravely wrong signal’</p><p>A visit to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/taiwan">Taiwan</a> by two US senators has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between officials of the two sides.</p><p>The chair of the Senate armed services committee, Roger Wicker, and the Nebraska senator Deb Fischer arrived in Taipei on Friday for a series of high-level meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders. They plan to discuss US-Taiwan relations, regional security and trade and investment, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s de facto embassy in lieu of formal diplomatic relations with the self-governing island democracy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/29/us-senators-taiwan-visit-taipei-china-criticism">Continue reading...</a>