U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has met Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in California, becoming the most senior U.S. official to meet a Taiwanese leader on U.S. soil since 1979.
The meeting - which also included a bipartisan group of lawmakers - went ahead despite threats of retaliation from China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own.
Mr McCarthy said he hoped the meeting could promote 'democracy, peace and stability'.
Our US correspondent Kate Fisher reports
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