ALBAWABA - Despite stern warnings from China, a defiant Taiwanese president met with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California, becoming the first president of Taiwan to meet with a U.S. House speaker on American soil. Tsai Ing-wen's meeting Wednesday sparked an angry reaction from Beijing, with a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry asserting that "China firmly opposes and strongly condemns" a U.S. leader meeting with Tsai. "In response to ...