The White House sought to dial back rising tensions with China over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expected visit to Taiwan,insisting the trip doesn’t signal a change in US posture toward the island and urging Beijing to refrain from an aggressive response.
The White House sought to dial back rising tensions with China over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expected visit to Taiwan, insisting the trip doesn’t signal a change in US posture toward the island and urging Beijing to refrain from an aggressive response.
Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan on Tuesday, according to people familiar with her plans. A meeting with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-Wen, is on Pelosi’s schedule for Wednesday, according to one of the people, although another person said such a meeting is still in flux. Administration officials were uncertain she would comply, and in the end Biden made no such request in public or private, the people said.
Kirby on Monday detailed for the first time possible actions the US expects China could take in response to Pelosi’s trip to the self-governing island, including firing missiles into the Taiwan Strait, launching new military operations, crossing an unofficial no-fly zone between Taiwan and the mainland and making “spurious” legal claims about the strait.
Under the agreement reached in 1978 to normalize relations between China and the US, Washington agreed to recognize only Beijing as the seat of China’s government, while acknowledging—but not endorsing —the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China.
An aggressive response from Beijing and its military could quickly spiral into violence. Chinese media outlets including the Communist Party’s Global Times have suggested the People’s Liberation Army could go so far as to send warplanes over the island. Taiwan would then need to decide whether to shoot them down, a move that could trigger a wider military conflict. China would have to weigh the possibility that America and its allies in the region would be drawn in militarily.
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