After a week of increasing US-China tension over the potential speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, it seems that he will not visit the island country, which is seen by Beijing as part of his territory.
PelSi, the third most powerful politician in America, reportedly planned a visit to Taiwan as part of its tour in the Indo-Pacific region which officially began on Sunday.Taiwan disappeared from a pelSi travel plan, which mentioned other Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the Congress delegation to the Indo-Pacific region, including visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. This trip will focus on reciprocal security, economic partnership and democratic governance in the Indo-Pacific region, “read the statement issued by his office on Sunday.
This happened three days after US President Joe Biden and his colleague Chinese Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation, where the latter warned “playing with fire” over Taiwan.Those who play with the fire will perish because of it, “The Chinese Foreign Ministry has quoted the word Chinese President.” It is hoped that the US will be clearly about this. “
If the pelSi passed the visit, he would be the highest high -ranking American official to go to the island since 1997, when the speaker Newt Gingrich had been traveling.
Controversy about the potential for pelSi visits to Taiwan came when the US-China ties were under tension about other problems such as the Russian-Ukraine War, as well as the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing.
China sees official contact with Taiwan as a democratic elected island government revenue. Although the US has supported Taiwan’s democratic government, he also walked on the ‘One Chinese’ policy, where he acknowledged that there was one China where Taiwan became his part.
