US senators arrive in Taipei for Indo-Pacific visit

A bipartisan group of three U.S. senators arrived in Taiwan on Sunday to meet with senior government officials and discuss U.S.-Taiwan relations and other issues.

Senators Tammy Duckworth, Dan Sullivan and Christopher Coons were welcomed by Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, along with the director of the American Institute in Taiwan, Brent Christensen.

The lawmakers' trip is likely to anger Beijing, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province of China, and objects to Taiwan being treated as a country in its own right.

Like most nations, the U.S. has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

The lawmakers' visit is part of a larger trip to the Indo-Pacific region, the American Institute in Taiwan said in a statement Saturday.