{"id":78842,"date":"2022-08-02T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78842"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T22:31:06","slug":"u-s-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-arrives-in-taiwan-on-tuesday-evening-despite-threats-from-beijing-of-serious-consequences-and-countermeasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78842","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives in Taiwan on Tuesday Evening despite threats from Beijing of serious consequences and Countermeasures"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBy<\/p>\n

Ananth Krishnan <\/strong><\/p>\n

United States House Speaker and veteran Democratic politician Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, marking the most high-level political engagement between the U.S. and Taiwan in 25 years.<\/p>\n

China condemned the visit as \u201ca major political provocation\u201d and said it would launch \u201ctargeted military operations\u201d as countermeasures, even as Beijing on Tuesday scrambled Su-35 fighters across the median of the Taiwan Strait in a show of force, placed restrictions on several Taiwanese exporters, and announced live-fire drills to be held in six regions surrounding the island of Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Defence Ministry said it is \u201con high alert\u201d while the PLA Eastern Theatre Command announced it will hold joint sea and air exercises in the sea and airspaces of northern, southwestern and southeastern Taiwan and also carry out missile tests.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s Foreign Ministry in a statement released shortly after Ms. Pelosi\u2019s U.S. Air Force-operated Boeing C-40C plane touched down in Taipei, said \u201cher visit to and activities in Taiwan, in whatever form and for whatever reason, is a major political provocation to upgrade U.S. official exchanges with Taiwan\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ms. Pelosi, on arrival, said her \u201cdelegation\u2019s visit to Taiwan honours America\u2019s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan\u2019s vibrant democracy\u201d. \u201cOur discussions with [the] Taiwan leadership reaffirm our support for our partner & promote our shared interests, including advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific region,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Underlining the importance on the visit placed by Taiwan, which has seen the number of countries that maintain formal relations dwindle to only around a dozen, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu welcomed Ms. Pelosi at the airport. Talks with President Tsai Ing-wen are set for Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying, earlier on Tuesday, accused the U.S. of \u201chollowing out\u201d its commitment to a \u201cOne China Policy\u201d. \u201cThe U.S. and Taiwan have made provocations together first, whereas China has been compelled to act in self-defence,\u201d she said. \u201cAny countermeasure to be taken by China would be a justified and necessary response to the U.S. oblivion to China\u2019s repeated d\u00e9marches and the U.S.\u2019s unscrupulous behaviour\u201d.
\nChinese analysts expected a series of measures to be announced in coming days and weeks, from military drills to economic actions, as well as a period of increasingly fraught relations between the world\u2019s two biggest powers.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to distance the White House from the visit, underlining, as President Biden had also conveyed to his counterpart Xi Jinping in a phone call on July 28, that \u201cCongress is an independent, coequal branch of government\u201d and \u201cthe decision is entirely the speaker\u2019s\u201d. He said if \u201cChina tries to create some kind of crisis or otherwise escalate tensions, that would be entirely on Beijing\u201d and there was \u201cprecedent\u201d. The last visit by a House Speaker was, however, as far back as in 1997, although members of Congress have since visited.<\/p>\n

China rejected that argument, saying \u201cwhen the House Speaker, being the third-highest ranking figure in the U.S. government, flies on U.S. military aircraft and makes a provocative visit to the Taiwan region, it is by no means an unofficial action\u201d.<\/p>\n

While China has blamed the U.S. of crossing \u201cred lines\u201d, the visit has been welcomed in Taiwan, which has accused Beijing of trying to change the current status quo through a combination of military pressure and moves to isolate Taiwan internationally.<\/p>\n

Economic measures may now follow. China, which is Taiwan\u2019s biggest trading partner, on Monday barred shipments from 100 Taiwanese exporters of products including seafood and honey.<\/p>\n

For now, however, the rare high-level visit is being welcomed in the island of 23 million people.<\/p>\n

Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Ananth Krishnan United States House Speaker and veteran Democratic politician Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, marking the most high-level political engagement between the U.S. and Taiwan in 25 years. China condemned the visit as \u201ca major political provocation\u201d and said it would launch \u201ctargeted military operations\u201d as countermeasures, even as Beijing …<\/p>\n

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