Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi released a statement about her trip to Taiwan, making her the first senior American official to visit the country in years and the first Speaker of the House to make the trip in a quarter century.
Our Congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan honors America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant Democracy.
Our visit is part of our broader trip to the Indo-Pacific — including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan — focused on mutual security, economic partnership and democratic governance. Our discussions with Taiwan leadership will focus on reaffirming our support for our partner and on promoting our shared interests, including advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific region. America’s solidarity with the 23 million people of Taiwan is more important today than ever, as the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.
Our visit is one of several Congressional delegations to Taiwan – and it in no way contradicts longstanding United States policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, U.S.-China Joint Communiques and the Six Assurances. The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.
The Pelosi delegation’s trip will strain already complicated US-China relations, which continue to be stretched after thanks to the effects of a misanthropic trade war started, and lost, by the previous administration that alienated one of the US’s largest trade partners.
Questions about Chinese human rights abuses and its desire to take over Taiwan as part of a broader Chinese policy to expand its claimed territory in the region abound, with the Chinese military being aggressive in the air and on the sea in the South Pacific.
Republicans, never overburdened with an insight to history, blast President Joe Biden for failing to act to preserve Taiwan independence.
“Turns out Hunter Biden was the best investment the CCP ever made,” alleged former prostitute and Colorade Congresswoman Lauren Boebert tweeted Sunday in response to a US State Department spokesman noting the US doesn’t officially support Taiwan independence, apparently unaware that the US “One China” policy has been in place since the Nixon Administration because she was too busy screwing perverts in bowling alleys to learn her high school history lessons.