{"id":9786,"date":"2022-08-03T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:13:49","slug":"pelosi-lands-in-taiwan-defying-china-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/pelosi-lands-in-taiwan-defying-china-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi lands in Taiwan, defying China threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pelosi lands in Taiwan, defying China threats. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> landed in Taiwan late Tuesday, defying a string of increasingly stark warnings and threats from China that have sent tensions between the world s two superpowers soaring.<\/p>\n

Pelosi, second in line to the presidency, is the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years and Beijing has made clear that it regards her presence as a major provocation, setting the region on edge.<\/p>\n

Live broadcasts showed the 82-year-old lawmaker, who flew on a US military aircraft, being greeted at Taipei s Songshan Airport by foreign minister Joseph Wu.<\/p>\n

“Our delegation s visit to Taiwan honors America s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan s vibrant democracy,” she said in a statement upon her arrival, adding that her visit “in no way contradicts” US policy towards Taipei and Beijing.<\/p>\n

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Taiwan said the trip displayed “rock solid” support from Washington.<\/p>\n

Reaction from Beijing was swift with US Ambassador Nicholas Burns summoned by the Foreign Ministry late Tuesday and warned that Washington “shall pay the price” for Pelosi s visit.<\/p>\n

“The move is extremely egregious in nature and the consequences are extremely serious,” China s Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua. “China will not sit idly by.”<\/p>\n

Pelosi is currently on a tour of Asia and while neither she nor her office confirmed the Taipei visit in advance, multiple US and Taiwanese media outlets reported it was on the cards — triggering days of mounting anger from Beijing.<\/p>\n

China s military said it was on “high alert” and would “launch a series of targeted military actions in response” to the visit.<\/p>\n

It promptly announced plans for a series of military exercises in waters around the island to begin on Wednesday, including “long-range live ammunition shooting” in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n

“Those who play with fire will perish by it,” Beijing s foreign ministry added.<\/p>\n

Taiwan s defence ministry said more than 21 Chinese military aircraft had flown on Tuesday into Taiwan s air defence identification zone — an area wider than its territorial airspace that overlaps with part of China s own air defence zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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