“What we saw with China was that they were trying to establish a new normal. And we cannot let that happen,” Ms Pelosi said at a news conference on August 10, referring to the provocative practice.
“What we saw with China was that they were trying to establish a new normal. And we cannot let that happen,” Ms Pelosi said at a news conference on August 10, referring to the provocative practice.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosic has said the US cannot allow China to establish a “new normal” to pressure Taiwan through the kind of military exercises and warship incursions that Beijing began. he visited the self-governing island,
China announced on 10 August that it had “successfully completed” its weeklong and unprecedented Military exercises that have essentially surrounded Taiwan,
Initially, the People’s Liberation Army declared war games in the busy Taiwan Strait from August 4 to 7, the day after Ms. Pelosi, the highest-ranking US leader to visit Taiwan in 25 years, followed the high-level. left Taipei. Meetings It continued to expand them later, placing the broken island on tenterhooks.
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“What we saw with China was that they were trying to establish a new normal. And we cannot let that happen,” Ms Pelosi said at a news conference on August 10, referring to the provocative practice.
The Chinese military exercise involving hundreds of warplanes, dozens of naval ships, including an aircraft carrier group with a nuclear submarine, was claimed by official media here that such war games in the busy Taiwan Strait would be a new normal .
Ms Pelosi’s visit to Taipei angered Beijing, which views Taiwan as a separate province that must be reunited with the mainland by force if necessary. Taiwan has accused China of using the recent drills as an exercise in aggression.
We didn’t go there to talk about China. We went there to praise Taiwan. And we were there to show our friendship, ‘China can’t tear Taiwan apart,'” Ms Pelosi insisted on Wednesday during a news conference after her trip to Asia.
“The visit made a clear statement that America’s commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific is unwavering,” Ms Pelosi said.
The US, along with several world powers, is talking about the need to ensure a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China’s increasing military maneuvers in the resource-rich region.
China claims almost all disputed areas South China SeaHowever, Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it. Beijing has built artificial islands and military installations in the South China Sea. China also has territorial disputes with Japan in the East China Sea. Ms Pelosi said their bilateral discussions centered around seizing opportunities and addressing shared challenges, including maintaining democracy in the face of autocracy, promoting strong economic growth, including in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and governance. , COVID-19 and responding to the climate. Problem.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks told reporters that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan made it clear that whatever Chinese President Xi Jinping said, the US is going to stand by its friends and allies.
Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamurthy, who was part of the Congressional delegation to Taiwan, was also present at the news conference. He said the delegation discussed the backlog of pending arms sales to Taiwan. In addition to Taiwan, Ms Pelosi’s delegation also visited Singapore, MalaysiaSouth Korea and Japan.