“Keeping promises to democracy… The US must remember its pledge to protect Taiwan”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who stepped on Taiwan’s soil despite strong opposition from China, said on the 2nd (local time), “A visit to Taiwan is to keep our promise to democracy by reaffirming that we must respect the freedoms of Taiwan and all other democratic countries. “He said.
“We are on this tour at a time when the world has to choose between absolutism and democracy,” Pelosi said in an article published in the Washington Post on the same day.
He mentioned the ‘Taiwan Relations Act’, which regulates US relations with Taiwan, and said that the US has an obligation to protect Taiwan.
The law, which sets out the basis for providing Taiwan with defensive weapons, states that “any attempt to determine Taiwan’s future by non-peaceful means, including boycotts or embargoes, constitutes a threat to peace and security in the western Pacific region and a serious concern to the United States. ‘,” Pelosi emphasized.
“Today, the United States must remember that pledge,” Pelosi said, arguing that Taiwan’s security has been jeopardized as China has dramatically increased tensions with Taiwan in recent years.
He also criticized China for economically oppressing Taiwan, including daily cyberattacks on Taiwanese government agencies and pressures on global companies to sever economic ties with Taiwan, intimidating countries cooperating with Taiwan.
“In the face of the growing aggression of the Chinese Communist Party, the visit of our congressional delegation should be seen as a clear declaration that the United States is with us while our democratic partner, Taiwan, defends its country and its freedoms,” he said.
Pelosi said China had perpetrated the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the extermination of Tibetan culture, the genocide of the Xinjiang Uyghurs and the arrest of dissidents in China.
In 1991, referring to the experience of being kicked out by the police following reading a commemorative statement at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, he said, “After that, President Xi Jinping took more power, and China’s vicious human rights record and disregard for the rule of law continue.” claimed.
“The unity between the United States and Taiwan is more important today than ever before, not only for the 23 million people living in Taiwan, but also for the other millions that China oppresses and threatens,” he said.
Still, the US opposes attempts by either China or Taiwan to change the status quo, and Pelosi insisted that the visit did not conflict with the US’ ‘one China’ policy.
/yunhap news
