China conducted a military exercise on Saturday with “live ammunition” in the island’s strait as a pressure measure to avoid the US visit
United States House of Representatives President Nancy Pelosi released this Sunday the itinerary of the Asia tour that has just begun without naming Taiwan on the scales amid tensions over China’s threats over a possible visit by the senior US official to an area over which Beijing historically claims its sovereignty and denounces any approach by the United States as interference.
Pelosi mentions that the tour will take her through “Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan”, where she and the accompanying delegation will hold “high-level meetings to discuss how we can promote shared interests and values, including peace”. , economic growth and trade, the covid pandemic, the climate crisis, human rights and democratic governance.
Tensions with China have reached such a point that the military began a live military exercise on Saturday in Fujian province, just off the coast of the Taiwan Strait, near the territory.
Relations between Beijing and Taipei were suspended in 1949 after troops of the Chinese nationalist Kuomintang party, led by Chiang Kai Shek, suffered defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party of China and moved to the island of Taiwan.
Ties between Taiwan and mainland China were only restored on a business and informal level in the late 1980s. China considers Taiwan its rogue state, even though the island has declared independence and is supported by the United States and the European Union .
In this context, Pelosi’s potential visit has historic scope as she would become the first lower house president of the US Congress to visit Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich in 1997, in an announcement to which China publicly warned it would respond in kind with powerful and powerful way.
Pelosi travels in the company of, among others, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Meeks, or the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Mark Takano.
Source: La Verdad
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