‘ARM TAIWAN TO THE TEETH’: Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chairman of the newly established House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, managed to slip into Taiwan over the weekend while attention was focused on Ukraine and is clearly alarmed after his four days of meetings with Taiwanese officials, including President Tsai Ing-wen, and Taiwan’s foreign and defense ministers.

“I return from my trip to Taiwan even more convinced that the time to arm Taiwan to the teeth was yesterday,” Gallagher said in a statement released last night. “Taiwan is on the frontlines of authoritarian expansion. We must surge hard power west of the international date line in order to deter a Chinese Communist Party invasion before it’s too late.”