In return, Keating chastises former US House speaker for her ‘recklessly indulgent visit to Taiwan’ in 2022
‘I’ve no idea about Keating, but I think that it was a stupid statement to make,’ Nancy Pelosi told ABC’s 7:30 program of the former prime minister referring to Taiwan as ‘Chinese real estate’.‘I’ve no idea about Keating, but I think that it was a stupid statement to make,’ Nancy Pelosi told ABC’s 7:30 program of the former prime minister referring to Taiwan as ‘Chinese real estate’.
In a statement, Keating focused on Pelosi’s remark that “it is not in the security interest of the Asia-Pacific region for people to talk that way”. It was the first visit to Taiwan by a speaker of the US House of Representatives in a quarter of a century.the Chinese Communist party “cannot prevent world leaders or anyone from travelling to Taiwan to pay respect to its flourishing democracy, to highlight its many successes and to reaffirm our commitment to continued collaboration”.
Keating said he was representing “the national interests of Australia, not the national interests of the United States nor indeed, the interests of Taiwan”.
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