USA “will not allow” China isolate her TaiwanThis was announced today in Tokyo by the Chairman of the House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi after her visit to the island caused outrage in Beijing.

Ms Pelosi, 82, who is making Japan – the latest stop on her tour of Asia – her first visit since 2015, visited Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Beijing regards the autonomous island of 23 million as an integral part of Chinese territory, a breakaway province destined to be reunited with the mainland in the future. It responded by conducting unprecedented military exercises around Taiwan on Thursday, deploying fighter jets, helicopters and ships, as well as launching ballistic missiles, some of which overflew the island and landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone for the first time. Defense in Tokyo.

“The Chinese started these launches, possibly using our visit as an excuse,” Ms. Pelosi said at a press conference in Tokyo.

They are trying to “isolate Taiwan,” he added, recalling that in the spring, Beijing rejected a US call to allow the island’s authorities to participate in the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO).

But “they will not isolate Taiwan because we will prevent them from doing so. “We had high-level visits, senators went there in the spring,” he said. “It was a “cross-party” initiative, insisting that “we will not let them isolate Taiwan.”

“They will not decide where we go,” said the chairman of the House of Representatives.

However, Ms. Pelosi said her tour of the region “was not about changing the status quo here in Asia, it was about changing the status quo in Taiwan.”

Officially, since 1979, Washington has recognized only one Chinese government – Beijing, although it plays the role of a protectorate of Taipei and is the largest supplier of weapons to its armed forces.

The visit, according to the President of the US House of Representatives, “concerned the ‘Taiwan Relations Act’ (ss ‘Taiwan Relations Act’), passed by the US Congress in 1979, which governs US-Taiwan relations and US-China relations, all the texts of laws and agreements that govern our relations.”

Speaking of Sino-US relations, Ms. Pelosi opined that if the US remained silent “on the issue of human rights in China because of (their) commercial interests”, then “we will lose all moral authority” and “we will not we will be able to talk about human rights anywhere in the world.”

According to APE