Military making plans should SpeakerPelosi go to Taiwan: Report
The military would increase its movement of forces and assets into the region, while fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets, and other equipment would provide additional rings of protection during the trip, officials told thePelosi would be the highest-ranking official to travel to Taiwan since 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich traveled to the island nation of roughly 24 million people.
“The U.S. ... must not arrange for Pelosi to visit the Taiwan region,” Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Senior Col. Tan KefeiTuesday. “Should the U.S. side insist on doing otherwise, the Chinese military will never sit idl[y] by and will certainly take strong and resolute measures to thwart any interference by external forces and secessionist attempts for ‘Taiwan independence’ and firmly defend China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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