China’s warning worked; “Nancy Pelosi” is not going to Taiwan.
Following China’s warnings about US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, according to the American lawmaker’s statement, she is not going to visit the island.
After Beijing’s top officials intensified their warnings to Washington about Taiwan, it seems that the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has abandoned his plans to visit the island.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, issued a statement about her periodic trip to a number of Asian countries. Explanations in which there is no mention about the possible trip of this senior congressional official to Taiwan.
The statement of the senior American Democratic lawmaker states: “Nancy Pelosi is leading a congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific region, including visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan.” The focus of this trip will be on mutual security, economic partnership and democratic governance in the Indo-Pacific region.
“Today, our congressional delegation travels to the Indo-Pacific to reaffirm America’s strong and unwavering commitment to our allies and friends in the region,” Pelosi said. In Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, and with our friends in the region, our delegation during high-level meetings on how to further our shared interests and values, including peace and security, economic growth and trade, the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis We will talk about climate, human rights and democratic governance. Under President Biden’s strong leadership, the United States is firmly committed to smart and strategic engagement in the region and understands that a peaceful, free and prosperous Indo-Pacific is critical to the well-being of our country and the world at large.”
In Nancy Pelosi’s statement and her explanations about the visit of the high-ranking delegation of the US Congress, there is no mention of her possible trip to Taiwan; A trip that has made a lot of news in recent days and has been followed by severe warnings from the Chinese authorities about this trip.
The statement of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives was issued only an hour after the beginning of the Chinese naval exercises in the South China Sea at the beginning of Nancy Pelosi’s Asian tour.
