Beijing strongly condemns US visit to Taiwan region

Beijing on Thursday strongly condemned and firmly rejected the visit of United States Congress officials to China's Taiwan region, saying it violated the one-China principle and broke the US promise to only maintain non-official relations with the island.

A delegation of US bipartisan House lawmakers, led by Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat from Florida who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday.

The visiting Congressmen met with Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen and will stay until Friday.