at the start of a three day summit. the leaders are delivering opening remarks at the great hall of the people during the first event of a packed schedule today. the french president said it would focus on economic ties and stability. macron is expected to press chinese officials, including li qiang and president xi to do more for peace in ukraine. we will bring you more on the talks as they take place later. this summit comes as tensions between china and the west are running high. and as taiwanese president tsai ing wen is in california meeting with us speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. here she is meeting lawmakers despite objections by china. mccarthy stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to taiwan. china, which has long considered taiwan as part of its country, denounced the meeting, accusing the us of seeking taiwanese independence. it comes on the heels of other high profile summits, including then speaker of the house nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan last year.
news and we have got some breaking news coming into us at the bbc. the house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccall is leading a investigation that has just landed in taipei. chairman mccall isjoined by mccall is joined by representative mccall isjoined by representative young kim of the indo pacific and a ranking member of the subcommittee on the indo pacific and some other representatives. the delegation, while they are there, will meet with time in his business leaders we understand as well as senior taiwanese officials from the executive and legislative branches to discuss the ways that the us can strengthen economic and defence relationships. this is of course significant because just on wednesday we saw the taiwanese president visiting california meeting with the us speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. so, this visit is another sign of the us strengthening its relations with taiwan. we will continue to follow that visit from michael mccall and his colleagues in taiwan