In response to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China asserts that its response will be “strong and rapid,” while the Taiwan Defense announced that Chinese maneuvers besieged it by sea and air.
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Pelosi in Taiwan.. China warns Washington of the consequences of its visit to the island (AFP)
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said today, Wednesday, that the measures to respond to… US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan It will be “strong and fast”.
The State Department added that “China will do whatever is necessary to defend its territory, and the United States will bear the consequences of Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.”
For his part, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in response to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, stressed that “the implementation of full national unity with Taiwan is.”General trend and historical inevitability“.
In turn, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunyong said that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan “sent the wrong message to the separatists there,” noting that this visit “violates the one-China principle and destabilizes China’s territory.”
A number of countries expressed support for the “one China” principle and rejected Pelosi’s visit, which they described as “unwise.”
In this context, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States is trying, through Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, to prove to the whole world “its ability to evade accountability, and that there are no prohibitions for it.”
On Wednesday, the Taiwan Defense Ministry responded to Beijing by saying that “Chinese exercises amounted to an air and sea blockade of Taiwan.”
A few days ago, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense said that 21 Chinese warplanes penetrated the air defense field On the island, coinciding with Pelosi’s arrival on the island.
This comes following China announced Military exercises off the coast of Taiwan. “The military wing of the ruling Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army, will conduct live-fire exercises in the western part of the Qiongzhou Strait, which separates southern Guangdong Province from Hainan Island, as well as in the waters southeast of Dawanshan Island, south of the coast,” Xinhua said. Guangdong Province.
On Tuesday, China announced a measure… Military exercises in 6 regions around Taiwan Between August 4 and August 7.
Two days ago, Chinese President Jin Xi warned his US counterpart, Joe Biden, not to “play with fire the Taiwan issue,” saying that “Those who play with fire will burn themselvesAnd I hope the American side is fully aware of this.”
Pelosi arrived at Taipei airport Tuesday evening, and Thursday morning, she met with Taiwan’s Chief of Staff Tsai Ing-wen.
It is noteworthy that Pelosi’s visit to the island is the first since 1997 by a speaker of the US House of Representatives. It was scheduled to take place last April, but official sources reported, at a later time, that Pelosi had contracted the Corona virus, which necessitated its postponement.
