The House speaker is the highest profile U.S. official to visit the island in decades—and it is escalating already-high tensions with China.
Monday. “We have said that we do not support Taiwan independence. And we have said that we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.”Pelosi said the same as she landed in Taipei. “Our visit is one of several Congressional delegations to Taiwan,” she said in a statement. “And it in no way contradicts longstanding United States policy.”, its nationalist authoritarian leader, and the U.S.
“America’s solidarity with the 23 million people of Taiwan is more important today than ever, as the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy,” she said in aThat echoed the statements a bipartisan chorus of lawmakers made in support of her trip: “I think it’s important that we go over there and tell Taiwan that they are an important democratic ally,” Republican Senatorlast week.
Pelosi touched down in Taiwan late Tuesday in local time, making her the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the island in decades;China’s threats of retaliation to Pelosi’s trip as a “bluff.” But the dynamics of the two visits are different: Tensions are higher now, for one, and Pelosi is a member of the president’s party, for another.
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