Get ready for fireworks. Pelosi to visit Taiwan next month
Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan next month amid China tensions
Trip will mark first in 25 years by a Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Six people familiar with the situation said Pelosi would take a delegation to Taiwan in August. The 82-year-old California lawmaker cancelled a previous visit in April after she caught Covid-19.
The Chinese embassy in the US said China “resolutely opposes all forms of official contact between the US and Taiwan”. Spokesperson Liu Pengyu said a visit by Pelosi to Taiwan would “severely impact the political foundation of China-US relations and send aseriously wrong signal to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces”.
The same month as the anniversary of the PLA lolThree people familiar with the situation said the White House had expressed concern about the trip. The timing is sensitive for China because it will come in the same month as the August 1 anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
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