House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic congressional delegation landed in Taiwan on Tuesday.
Beijing had repeatedly made clear that it would view a visit by Pelosi as an endorsement of Taiwan’s independence and China’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that“We would like to tell the United States once again that China is standing by, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never sit idly by, and China will take resolute responses and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking US elected official to travel to the island nation since 1997.Two men read the Global Times newspaper cover highlight House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Asia tour in Beijing, China on August 1, 2022.While the US doesn’t have full diplomatic ties to Taiwan, it has an agreement to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
“Nothing has changed,” he told reporters. “It is not without precedent for a Speaker of the House to go to Taiwan — if she goes, and I’m not confirming that she is — and it’s certainly not without precedent for members of Congress to want to travel to Taiwan. It has been done this year, and I’m certain that it will be done in the future.
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