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The US President commented on the possibility that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will travel to Taiwan. According to the Financial Times, the visit is scheduled for August
Actually he should go in April. Then Covid stopped them but Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan still seems to be on the agenda. At least for now. He is to visit the country in the coming weeks, assures the Financial Times. And it would be the first visit by a Speaker of the House in 25 years (the most recent being Newt Ginrich in 1997). But now the situation has changed. And on the possibility of the trip, President Joe Biden himself intervened when asked by reporters: The army doesn’t think it’s a good idea.
The comment, as brief as it is effective, comes shortly after a statement by Chinese Foreign Minister Zhao Lijiang, who assured that if Nancy Pelosi’s plans to visit Taiwan were confirmed, she would take strong and decisive action. The trip would seriously undermine China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, damage the fundamentals of Sino-US relations and send the wrong signal to Taiwan’s independence forces.
The war in Ukraine only aggravated the situation in Taiwan and raised concerns about a possible imminent invasion of China. Who never accepted the island’s independence. Adds CIA Director William Burn in a speech at the Aspen Security Forum: Our sense that it’s not a question of “yes” if China invades Taiwan, but when. By the end of the month, Biden plans to hold a phone meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It would be the first talks between the two heads of state in the past four months.
July 21, 2022 (Modified July 21, 2022 | 01:26)
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