The president of the House of Representatives ensures the Island of support of the United States, while China organizes large military exercises in the Taiwan Strait.
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It was almost 11 pm, Tuesday August 2, in Taiwan, when the blue and white military plane marked “United States of America”, posed on the tarmac of Taipei airport, in front of the many cameras television broadcasting the event live. By setting foot on Taiwanese soil, the president of the House of American Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, wrote a page in the stormy history of relations between the United States, Taiwan, and China. The latter’s response was quick: the same evening, Beijing, who protested against any visit giving a semblance of official recognition to Taiwan, announced his most threatening reprisal measures to date, in the form of exercises soldiers organized all around the island. At the same time, on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, Chinese tanks fell on beaches in the province of Fujian, under the bewildered gaze of tourists.
China does not intend to let it pass what it considers an affront on the part of the United States: for Beijing, Taiwan is a rebellious province which is intended to be “reunified” with the Chinese continent. By going to Taipei during a trip to Asia, M Me Pelosi wanted to show that the support of the United States for the Democratic Island, is, as she said, ” solid like a rock “facing an increasingly aggressive China.
“The visit of our Congress Delegation does honor to our determined commitment to support the Taiwanese vibrant democracy,” said M Me Pelosi, the highest American official to go to Taiwanese soil For twenty-five years, before clarifying that his coming did not call into question the American policy of “a single China”, according to which the United States (like most of the world) officially recognize the People’s Republic of China , but do not maintain official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. A sign of the economic importance of Taiwan, M Me Pelosi also met Mark Liu, the boss of the TSMC company, world number one of semiconductors.
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Wednesday August 3 in the morning, the president of the House of Representatives spoke with the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-Wen, whose party defends the sovereignty of Taiwan, without going so far as to ask independence, A casus belli for China. “I welcome M me pelosi and his delegation: thank you for taking concrete actions to demonstrate your solid support to Taiwan, in this critical period,” said the Taiwanese leader during A common press conference. “Faced with important military threats, Taiwan will not back down. We will continue to preserve our sovereignty and hold the line of defense of democracy. We want to cooperate with all the democracies of the world,” she added.
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