The visit on Sunday was the first House of Representatives delegation to visit China since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic ended formal House visits in 2020, and relations rapidly deteriorated due to disagreement over the origins of the coronavirus that had spread all over the world.
This “ice-breaking” trip will further bilateral ties, Premier Li told the lawmakers, according to a pool report organised by the U.S. embassy in China.
“We can both acknowledge that both China and the U.S. have work to do to strengthen that relationship, which should not be, what, seven, six years between visits from the U.S. House of Representatives,“ Smith told Premier Li.
In the interim years between the meetings, when COVID-hit China largely shut its borders to the outside world, U.S. lawmakers had focused their visits elsewhere.
In 2022, then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic members of the House to Taiwan as part of a wider Asia tour. The trip infuriated China, which tells other countries to avoid official engagements with Taiwan, and triggered massive Chinese military exercises in waters and airspace around the island.
A year later, U.S. lawmakers angered Beijing again when Michael McCaul, then chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, visited Taiwan. McCaul, who was later sanctioned by China, pledged to help provide training for Taiwan's armed forces and speed up the delivery of weapons - REUTERS
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