Despite warnings from China, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has touched down in Taiwan, defying China’s heated rhetoric that claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has said it will use force if necessary to annex the island.
Pelosi, 82, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the island, since her predecessor Newt Gingrich in 1997.
In a statement made by Pelosi, shortly after her plane landed in Taiwan, she said the trip honors America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant Democracy.
“Our discussions with Taiwan leadership will focus on reaffirming our support for our partner and on promoting our shared interests, including advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific region,” she continued. “America’s solidarity with the 23 million people of Taiwan is more important today than ever, as the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.”
Pelosi was supposed to lead a congressional delegation to Taiwan in April but postponed after testing positive for COVID-19.
Pelosi has made this trip despite warnings from Chinese officials, including Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijiang.
Last Wednesday Lijiang said, “We have repeatedly made clear our firm opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan. If the U.S. side insists on making the visit and challenges China’s red line, it will be met with resolute countermeasures. The U.S. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof.”
China’s Ministry of National Defense has echoed that warning multiple times, also saying last week that Pelosi should cancel the trip or the country’s military will resolutely defend national sovereignty.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned President Joe Biden in a phone call last week of countermeasures if Pelosi’s trip were to proceed.
However, Pelosi claims the visit was part of a broader trip to the Indo-Pacific; including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, focused on mutual security, economic partnership and democratic governance.”
Pelosi added, “This trip in no way contradicts longstanding United States policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, U.S.-China Joint Communiques and the Six Assurances. The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.”
Pentagon officials have reportedly briefed Pelosi about heightened tensions in the region, and Biden said last week that the military considers Pelosi’s trip a bad idea at this time.
When asked what she thought about the Presidents warning, Pelosi simply responded, “I think what the President was saying is that maybe the military was afraid of my plane getting shot down or something like that. I don’t know exactly.”
It was reported that the security required for a U.S. delegation in flight over Taiwan would require an increase in movement of military forces and assets in the region, including fighter jets, ships and other means of surveillance.
Despite the security warnings, some Republicans have praised Pelosi for making the trip.
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse said prior to the trip, “Speaker Pelosi should go to Taiwan and President Biden should make it abundantly clear to Chinese leader Chairman Xi Jinping that there’s not a damn thing the Chinese Communist Party can do about it. No more feebleness and self-deterrence.”
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville echoed that praise, noting that he made the trip 5 or 6 months ago, despite similar warnings. “Taiwan needs us to come. We need to show our support. China’s not stupid enough to do something crazy … We need to show strength,” Tuberville said, added, “I hate to say this, Nancy Pelosi going over shows strength.”
This fucking ass hole, has now given China a reason to leave the International Climate Accord, in which they were not abiding by anyway. So where are all the Climate Ass Holes, no attacks on Pelosi, she just destroyed any chance of stopping the Chinese of polluting the planet, but we will have to go green, while China makes trillions on our back. If these Democrats are this clueless than we will need drastic measures to eradicate all these losers from influencing anything in our country ever again.
This whore and her drunken idiot husband are owned by the chinese.