U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to visit Taiwan on the 10th. Picture: Taken from Nancy Pelosi Facebook (file photo)
Japan’s Fuji News Network (FNN) exclusively reported that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will adjust her itinerary to visit Taiwan after meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Japan on the 10th. However, after the news came to light, Pelosi’s spokesperson said on the 7th that Pelosi has tested positive for Wuhan pneumonia and is currently asymptomatic, and her congressional delegation to Asia will be postponed for this reason.
April 10 this year marks the 43rd anniversary of the legislation of the “Taiwan Relations Act” in the United States. Japan’s Fuji TV News Network reported that Pelosi will visit Taiwan after leading a delegation to Japan. If Pelosi makes the trip, it will be the first time that the Speaker of the House of Representatives has visited Taiwan in the past 25 years since 1997. The U.S. arranged this trip on an ad hoc basis to show its support for Taiwan at a time when the military and economic pressures caused by the war between China and Ukraine and Russia are increasing.
Japan’s Fuji TV news network quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Pelosi will lead a delegation to visit Asia from April 8, and the first stop will be Japan. , the next stop is to visit Taiwan. Even though all parties are quite low-key at present, the chances of Pelosi coming to Taiwan are expected to be quite high.
In response to the news of Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China, Ma Xiaoguang, criticized the United States government and Congress constantly. The U.S. will seriously violate the “one China” principle and the three Sino-U.S. joint communiques, seriously undermining China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and China will “resolutely strike back.”