SIMI VALLEY, Calif.— Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday grew to become essentially the most senior elected official to satisfy with a Taiwanese president on U.S. soil since Washington established diplomatic relations with Beijing, at a gathering orchestrated to sign solidarity with the island amid rising tensions with China.
The gathering on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is in some methods a backtrack by Mr. McCarthy, who promised through the midterm elections that if he had been elected speaker, he would…
