Trump ally Steve Daines rejects claims of talks with KMT leader

Republican Senator Steve Daines said he did not meet with Cheng Li-wun, the leader of Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang party, during her US visit earlier this month despite Cheng’s statements to the contrary, saying she met only with members of his staff. “She met my staff. She did not meet me,” the conservative lawmaker from Montana told the South China Morning Post on Monday. Cheng visited Wa