House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) vowed that the United States and its allies will not allow China to isolate Taiwan.
The top lawmaker gave the remarks in Tokyo on the last stop of her highly publicized East Asia trip, which was punctuated by a controversial visit to Taiwan. Pelosi hit back at the Chinese government, which has levied threats over the visit and conducted drills around the self-governing democracy it claims for its own, saying Beijing would not be allowed to prevent U.S. officials from visiting the island off the east coast of China nor isolate it.
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“We will not allow them to isolate Taiwan,” Pelosi defiantly declared on Friday night local time.
Pelosi’s visit to Japan concludes her tour of the region, during which she also traveled to Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea. She made the trip with five other members of Congress.
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Pelosi became the first speaker of the House to visit Taiwan in 25 years on Wednesday despite warnings from Beijing, invoking the fury of the communist government. China’s People’s Liberation Army has been conducting extensive live-fire exercises around the island.
