The Speaker of the US House of Representatives spoke out in defense of her scandalous visit
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait remain, and the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who caused it with her visit to Taipei, defended her actions, waving off Chinese anger.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the U.S. military never told her not to go to Taiwan, defending her historic visit amid China’s hostile reaction and warnings from the Biden administration.
Long ago, ever since the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, known as the anti-Chinese hawk, Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday that Beijing used her trip to Taiwan last week as a pretext to increase aggression against the island, including military live firing exercises conducted over the past week.
According to Politico, the speaker of the American House of Representatives condemned China’s attempts to “isolate” Taiwan from the rest of the world and stated that it is necessary to visit this island in order to “welcome this flourishing democracy” and maintain the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
“What we saw in China is that they were trying to establish a new norm,” Pelosi said. — And we just can’t let that happen».
After it became known that Nancy Pelosi was going to go to Taiwan, President Joe Biden told reporters that the US military “think it’s not a good idea right now,” but the White House eventually said that the speaker was planning the trip herself. Earlier, Politico reported that the Biden administration is concerned about the excessive reaction of the Chinese to the trip.
“I don’t remember them ever telling us not to go,” Pelosi said of the American armed forces. “We are very proud of our army. Their preparation actually, I think, minimized the influence of the Chinese on our trip. So they took very good care of us.”
Pelosi laughed at Beijing’s decision to impose sanctions against her, telling reporters: “For me, this is secondary and has no meaning.”
Speaker Pelosi and the five Democrats who traveled with her received broad bipartisan support for her trip to Taiwan both before and after the visit, with U.S. lawmakers from both parties arguing that she should not abandon their plans simply because it would upset Beijing.
“If the price of preventing such provocative measures is the transfer of control over Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China or the transfer of control over the schedule of our congressional trips to the People’s Republic of China, this is not the price we are going to pay,” says Member of the House of Representatives Raja Krishnamurti (Illinois), who joined the trip.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs, Gregory Meeks (New York), who also accompanied Pelosi, said that the delegation’s visit was not aimed at changing the status quo in US-Taiwan relations, which are regulated by the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act. He accused Beijing of trying to undermine the status quo by intimidating Taiwan.
“They want to keep us from visiting our friends and allies,” Mix said. “And I think this trip, which they didn’t expect, showed that no matter what President Xi [Jinping] says, we will support our friends and allies.”
The delegation led by Pelosi, reminds Politico, also made stops in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea.
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