Beijing is opposed to any official contact between Taiwan and other countries, considering that this island region of 24 million inhabitants is historically one of its provinces, although it does not control it.
China warned today that the United States will bear responsibility for a possible visit to Taiwan of the speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and how they should bear “all the consequences”.
Beijing is opposed to any official contact between Taiwan and other countries, considering that this island region of 24 million inhabitants is historically one of its provinces, although it does not control it.
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives and in that capacity one of the highest-ranking officials of the American state, refused to tell reporters last Thursday whether she will make this trip, which is planned for August according to some media.
He will be the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan in decades.
Beijing expressed today the “fixed opposition” of in this eventual visit, which does not meet with unanimity even within the American government.
“If the United States insists” on a visit by Ms. Pelosi to Taiwan, “it will have to bear all the consequences,” a Chinese diplomatic spokesman told reporters. Xiao Lijian.
The United States, like the vast majority of countries in the world, does not officially recognize Taiwan.
But they strongly support the island, whose “democratic” regime they tout and Washington is Taiwan’s most important partner and arms supplier.
Seeing this as an attack on its sovereignty, China has increased pressure against Taipei in recent years, for example by carrying out incursion campaigns into Taiwan’s air defense zone.
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