(29 Aug 2025)
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Taipei, Taiwan – 29 August 2025
1. U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer walking down steps alongside Taiwan’s National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu (screen left) and American Institute in Taiwan Director Raymond Greene (screen right) following talks with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te
2. Wide of journalists filming
3. Close of camera viewfinder
4. Wide of Wicker, Fischer, Wu and Greene at press briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Deb Fischer, U.S. Senator:
“The Chinese Communist Party continues to threaten, to pressure, and attempt to isolate Taiwan. These actions are unacceptable. The people of Taiwan have earned their place as a respected and an indispensable part of our global economy.”
6. Close of camera viewfinder
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Deb Fischer, U.S. Senator:
“The United States recognizes the weight of Taiwan’s challenges. We also recognize that the world is more dangerous today than at any point since World War II. That reality demands seriousness and resolve. It requires us, both in Washington and in Taipei, to invest wisely, to strengthen deterrence and to ensure that our defenses are prepared for the threats of tomorrow.”
8. Various of journalist asking question
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Wicker, U.S. Senator:
“There is a axis of aggression that threatens the freedom of many people around the world. This axis includes the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, North Korea and Iran. And they’re working together as never before to challenge those democracies, such as the United States and Taiwan, and others, who believe in freedom and elections that matter and self-determination.”
10. Various of Wicker, Fischer, Wu and Greene taking a selfie and then leaving
STORYLINE:
A visit by a pair of U.S. senators to Taiwan has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between officials of the two sides.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer arrived in Taipei on Friday for a series of high-level meetings with senior Taiwan leaders.
Following a meeting with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, Fischer said the people of Taiwan had "earned their place as a respected and an indispensable part of our global economy,” calling out China for their continuing efforts, "to threaten, to pressure, and attempt to isolate Taiwan."
“The United States recognizes the weight of Taiwan’s challenges," she said.
Wicker referred to an "axis of aggression" that includes China, Russia, North Korean and Iran that "threatens the freedom of many people around the world."
"They’re working together as never before to challenge those democracies, such as the United States and Taiwan, and others, who believe in freedom and elections that matter and self-determination,” he added.
During their visit, the lawmaker duo are set to discuss U.S.-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade and investment, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, which acts as Washington’s de facto embassy in lieu of formal diplomatic relations with the self-governing island democracy.
The pair embarked on a trip to the Indo-Pacific region last Friday as part of efforts to strengthen U.S. national security interests.
They have also made stops in Hawaii, Guam, Tinian, Palau, and the Philippines.
AP video shot by Taijing Wu
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