Earlier this year, I traveled to Taiwan along with four of my colleagues from the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). There, our bipartisan delegation witnessed a thriving island democracy whose future will be closely bound up with our own.

In Taiwan, we met with President Tsai Ing-wen and President-elect William Lai and congratulated them on Taiwan's successful democratic election in January. We were honored to show our bipartisan support for these two inspiring leaders who are committed to strong U.S.-Taiwan ties and a peaceful and prosperous region.

We returned from our trip inspired to further deepen America's ties with Taiwan and even more concerned about the CCP's growing threat to the peace and prosperity of both Taiwan and the United States.

The most unequivocal message we heard during our visit was that a failure by the United States to support Ukraine against Russia's brutal and unprovoked invasion would embolden the CCP to undertake similar aggression against Taiwan and others in the region. Put differently, you cannot be strong on Taiwan but weak on Ukraine.

This is exactly what Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is doing with their refusal to bring the Biden administration's appropriations........

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