A group of nine lawmakers asked the Biden administration to establish a facility to expedite travel to the U.S. from Taiwan’s main international airport, a show of support for the island amid fear it could be targeted by an increasingly aggressive China.
The group of seven Republicans and two Democrats said in a letter dated Thursday that a pre-clearance facility at Taoyuan International Airport "would improve the ease of travel between the United States and Taiwan and reinforce the importance of our relationship with Taiwan.”
The airport "already hosts numerous non-stop flights to the United States, and is a major transit point in Asia,” the lawmakers wrote to Troy Miller, the senior official performing the duties of the commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.