US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has touched down in Taiwan, sparking a diplomatic storm with a furious China.
| US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has landed in Taipei and will meet Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday, defying Beijing’s warning thatMs Pelosi is the highest-ranking American politician in 25 years to visit Taiwan. China regards the self-governing island as part of its territory, insists reunification is inevitable, and is increasingly aggravated by what it views as a swing by Washington toward supporting Taiwan’s independence.
“I think the Chinese have a special dislike for Nancy Pelosi and that may be a factor in the very strong response. I think China may also believe that President Biden could have intervened to stop this visit,” Ms Glaser said.The public displays of acrimony are bad enough; more dangerous is the danger China will take action that it does not believe is escalatory but the United States takes a different view, Ms Glaser said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said it was “certainly not unofficial behaviour” when “the third-highest ranking figure in the US government, flies on a US military plane to make a provocative visit to the Taiwan region. She added any countermeasures from Beijing would be “justified” in response to such “unscrupulous behaviour.”
“There’s no reason for the Chinese rhetoric, there’s no reason for any actions to be taken,” said the National Security Council Co-ordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby.
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