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U.S. lawmakers arrive in Taiwan days after new president takes office

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers arrived in  Taiwan  on Sunday, days after the Beijing-claimed island’s  new president took office  with a warning to  China  to stop its threats.

The bipartisan delegation of six House members is the first group of current U.S. officials to meet with Taiwan President  Lai Ching-te  and arrived after China  concluded two days of “punishment” drills  around the island in response to what it described as “separatist acts.”

“I think it’s very important that we show our strong support for Taiwan. I think it is a deterrent,” Rep. Michael McCaul , R-Texas, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told NBC News before their arrival.

The delegation led by McCaul is his second to the island, and also includes Reps. Young Kim, R-Calif., Joe Wilson, R-S.C., Andy Barr, R-Ky., Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.

Though lawmakers from the United States and other countries regularly travel to Taiwan, China views such visits as provocative and supportive of “‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces.”

As with McCaul’s first delegation to Taiwan in April 2023, Chinese officials expressed opposition to the current trip.

In an email first obtained by NBC News, a Chinese Embassy official warned McCaul against the visit and described Lai’s inauguration speech on Monday as “the worst speech ever by a Taiwan new leader.”

“It once again proved that Mr. Lai has chosen an independence course and is on his way to implement it,” the email read.

Like the majority of the Taiwanese public, Lai, 65, who was the island’s vice president for the past four years, says he favors maintaining the status quo, neither formally declaring independence nor becoming part of China.

Speaking at a meeting of his Democratic Progressive Party on Sunday, Lai thanked the U.S. and other countries for their support and said he “looked forward to enhancing mutual understanding and reconciliation with China via exchanges and cooperation.”

While in Taipei, the U.S. lawmakers plan to meet with senior Taiwanese officials to understand the new administration’s priorities and objectives, a Foreign Affairs Committee spokesperson said.

The lawmakers will also meet with the leadership of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. Embassy, to conduct oversight and discuss the U.S. relationship with Taiwan, which has no formal relations with Washington but relies on it for defensive weapons and international support.

A bipartisan delegation of former senior U.S. officials attended Lai’s inauguration.

China has not ruled out the use of force in unifying with Taiwan, which rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims. Cross-strait relations deteriorated under Lai’s predecessor, Tsai Ing-wen , with China stepping up military and other pressure on the island, which is formally recognized by only 12 governments worldwide.

In his inauguration speech, Lai, who is also known by his English name William, urged China to cease its political and military threats against democratic Taiwan, which he called “a front-line guardian of world peace.”

“I hope that China will face the reality of the Republic of China’s existence, respect the choices of the people of Taiwan and in good faith choose dialogue over confrontation,” Lai said, using Taiwan’s formal name.

China expressed its disapproval of Lai on Thursday and Friday in joint military exercises in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands near the Chinese coast, leading Taiwan’s military to mobilize its own forces.

“This action targets the Taiwan independence forces and deters external forces from interfering, which is entirely reasonable, legal and necessary,” Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said at a news conference in Beijing on Friday.

In a statement on Thursday, the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the island would “continue to firmly uphold democracy” and that “this commitment will not change as a result of any coercion or suppression.”

Though China’s military response was expected and not as severe as the live-fire military exercises it launched after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August 2022, experts said it might indicate a hardening of attitudes in Beijing.

“The million-dollar question that we’re all trying to answer is whether or not this will become a normal thing under the Lai administration, or whether this is just a necessary response that we knew the PRC was going to do?” said Lev Nachman, a political scientist and assistant professor at National Chengchi University in Taipei, using the initials for China’s formal name, the People’s Republic of China.

“We don’t know yet.”

The delegation’s visit also comes after Congress recently passed about $2 billion in military aid for Taiwan in hopes of enhancing its defensive capabilities against China.

Alexander Yui, Taiwan’s new representative to the U.S., said the delegation’s visit to the island was “a show of the strength of friendship that we have worldwide.”

“It’s, in its essence, as important as the military aspect of our solid standing in the world and to show the other side that people do care about Taiwan,” Yui said.

Frank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate.

Ryan Nobles is a correspondent covering Capitol Hill.

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O n the day that Federal Aviation Administration funding was set to expire, Congress and the White House reauthorized it — and then some.

“It's a massive porkfest,” Gary Leff, author of the influential View from the Wing website, described the bill to the Washington Examiner. As one example, Leff noted that Congress “more than doubled Essential Air Service subsidies — a program that was supposed to be temporary and end in 1988. They liberalized restrictions on how much airports close to other airports can receive, too.”

Marc Scribner, transportation policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, said the FAA reauthorization “largely perpetuates the status quo, which isn’t particularly surprising given the COVID-19 chaos” that the industry is still recovering from.

If that is so, then the status quo has gotten more expensive. The 2018 FAA reauthorization gave the green light to almost $97 billion in spending over a five-year period, or $19.4 billion a year, according to a breakdown by the Eno Center for Transportation. The new reauthorization is for $105 billion over four years, at $26.2 billion a year, with almost $20 billion earmarked for airport infrastructure projects.

FAA reauthorizations don’t happen very often. Before the 2018 bill, the previous reauthorization was in 2012. These larger bills affect more than simply funding levels for air transportation and the excise taxes on tickets and cargo that get those funds in the door.

Because of the contentious nature of some of the proposed changes, short-term resolutions are often necessary. Short-term bills extended the previous regime from last September to this May 16, when President Joe Biden signed the long-term reauthorization into law.

This year’s bill saw two significant shifts in policy that may affect travelers and one that could boost safety.

One of the most significant changes is a new policy forcing the airlines to refund delayed or canceled flights, rather than rebooking.

“Ultimately, on the specific issue of automatic airline refunds, the airline lobby lost. And I can assure you that doesn't happen very often,” said William J. McGee, senior fellow for aviation and travel at the American Economic Liberties Project. He called it a bipartisan effort, praising Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) along with Massachusetts’s two Democratic senators and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) for “introducing the revised language to fix the awful section on refunds.”

Critics charge that this new requirement could lead to some passengers being stranded when a flight is significantly delayed or canceled. McGee chalks that up largely to industry propaganda.

“The airline industry put a ton of money and energy into lobbying for the ability to keep other people's money under a system that puts the burden on consumers to actively seek refunds,” he told the Washington Examiner. “The automatic feature ... will help ensure passengers get to keep the millions of dollars that are rightfully theirs.”

Another big policy shift is in air traffic control. Previously, by law this had to happen from large overlook towers at airports. No more.

“The best policy reform was on remote and digital air traffic control towers, which can improve safety and reduce costs,” Scribner told the Washington Examiner. “Like with many air traffic management technologies and practices, the FAA badly lags its overseas counterparts. While it failed to address the biggest long-term problems facing the agency and civil aviation, this FAA reauthorization may at least finally push the FAA into the 21st century on control tower technology.”

The bill lengthens the time that cockpit voice recorders must go before they begin overwriting from a few hours to 25 hours. Leff said this is significant because “in several recent incidents, voice recorders were written over before investigators could access them.”

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union representing the pilots of cargo airline Atlas Air had objected to the proposal in a comment to the FAA.

“We are strongly against the imposition of arbitrary and unnecessary new surveillance measures that would serve more as an invasion on worker privacy than it would serve to lower aviation safety risks in any meaningful way,” the Teamsters wrote in December.

One of the biggest missed opportunities in the bill was right in Congress’s own backyard at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Leff said.

The Perimeter rule, which is imposed by Congress on Reagan, limits the length of most flights to and from the airport to 1,250 miles. Congress can carve out exemptions to these limits with so-called beyond-perimeter slots for flights. It did this in 2012 by opening up eight new slots to or from Reagan per day. This bill allowed 10 additional longer to and from flights per day, but it was stingy about what airlines could fly those routes.

Leff said the language of the bill “was written as a giveaway to big airlines. The language in the bill forbids DOT from even awarding any to new entrants at the airport and appears to even preclude the two smallest carriers from accessing any.” The only smaller airline even in the running is Alaska Airlines.

“Interestingly the bill makes it easier for private jets like Elon Musk's to avoid public tracking,” he added.

The White House’s initial statement on the bill’s signing closed with, “Thank you to Representatives Graves and Larsen, Senators Cantwell and Cruz, and many others for their leadership.”

In one sense, that was expected boilerplate. Reps. Sam Graves (R-MO) and Rick Larsen (D-WA) are chairman and ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are their counterparts in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

In another sense, many observers were surprised to see Cruz, who famously pushed for a government shutdown to protest Obamacare, taking a leading role in striking a bipartisan deal.

Watchers of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee were less surprised. Since Cruz became ranking member there, he has worked to forge relationships across the political aisle. Last year, when Biden’s nominee for FAA head, Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington, bowed out, this was largely Cruz’s doing.

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Cruz taking the lead in the bipartisan FAA authorization could also signal greater ambition on his part. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has announced he will no longer be the leader of the Senate Republicans in the next Congress, creating a leadership vacuum.

Cruz’s robust push for the legislation’s passage does not mean he got everything he wanted, however. Leff quipped that the best thing about the FAA reauthorization “is that Cruz's provision to provide private screening and escorts to Members of Congress, Cabinet secretaries, and federal judges was removed from the bill.”

Jeremy Lott is a contributor for the Washington Examiner magazine.

TripAdvisor Argues Delaware’s Relocation Standards Are Too High

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A Delaware Chancery Court ruling allowing shareholders to seek damages over TripAdvisor Inc.’s planned relocation to Nevada is impractical and applies the wrong standard of review, the travel review and booking website said in an appeals brief that was made public Tuesday.

The February ruling allows TripAdvisor to leave Delaware for Nevada, which offers officers and directors more protection from shareholder lawsuits.

It’s unrealistic for the Chancery Court—long the country’s premier venue for corporate litigation—to expect “a well-functioning special committee comprised entirely of independent directors” in every corporate reincorporation, TripAdvisor said in its opening brief to the Delaware Supreme Court. ...

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