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Washington, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane has not reached Taiwan despite repeated warnings from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Whereas the Chinese government has already threatened Joe Biden that provoking him would be like playing with fire and could have serious consequences. Pelosi’s visit is the highest-level visit by a US official in the last 25 years.

The US has followed the ‘One China’ policy since 1970 and has recognized Taiwan as part of China. But at the same time they have also established informal relations with Taiwan. This is a strategy that is deliberately considered ambiguous. Beijing considers Taiwan a part of China and frequently threatens it. China has never denied military force occupation of the island.

What’s wrong with Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan?
China feels that the presence of a senior American figure in Taiwan is a clear indication that the US will support Taiwan’s independence. China’s Foreign Minister and spokesman Zhao Lijiang has said that if this visit takes place, then China will not back down from taking strict measures. He said that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan would affect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, while the move would also affect China-US relations.

History of tension between China and Taiwan
About 160 km off the southeast coast of China is the island of Taiwan, which faces the Chinese cities of Fuzhou, Guangzhou and Xiamen. It was once an empire of the Qing dynasty, but was taken over by Japan in 1895. After China defeated Japan in World War II, control of the island passed into Chinese hands. Subsequently, Communist leader Mao Zedong won a civil war in Mainland China, during which Nationalist Kuomintang Party leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in 1949.

Chiang Kai-shek established the government of the Republic of China on the island and served as its president until 1975. Beijing has never acknowledged Taiwan’s independent existence and has always considered it an integral part of China. Taiwan, on the other hand, argues that the modern Chinese state was established after the Revolution of 1911, and that the state of Taiwan was not part of the People’s Republic of China, which was established after the Communist Revolution. Since then this political tension has continued and economic relations between China and Taiwan have also been strained. Many Taiwanese expatriates work in China and China has also invested in Taiwan.

America and the world’s opinion about Taiwan
The US does not recognize Taiwan as a separate country, with only 13 countries in the world recognizing Taiwan as a country which mainly includes South America, the Caribbean, Oceania, and the Vatican. The US has always kept its strategy vague on this issue. In June, President Biden said that the United States would defend Taiwan if it were attacked, but soon after made it clear that the United States would not support Taiwan’s independence. While the US has no formal ties with Taipei. It is Taiwan’s most important international supporter and supplier of arms.

Earlier in 1997, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of the Republican Party visited Taiwan and during that time also warned China of action. According to an article published in the Indian Express, Gingrich told the New York Times that, we just want to make it clear to China that we will defend Taiwan.

But since then the situation has changed a lot. China has emerged as a very strong force in world politics today. The Chinese government passed a law in 2005 that authorizes Beijing to take military action. In recent years, Taiwan’s government has only been saying that the island’s 2.3 million people have the right to choose their future and will defend themselves in case of any attack. Since 2016, Taiwan has been electing a party that is pro-independence.

What does Pelosi think about China?
Speaker of the House of Representatives (the lower house of the US Congress) Nancy Pelosi is the second contender for the US presidency after the Vice President. He has often criticized China in his political journey. They have always attacked China, especially when it comes to human rights violations. For years, Pelosi has been listing her position on her website in a section titled ‘A Strong Voice for Human Rights in China’. For the past three decades, his name has topped the US Congress as the fiercest and strongest man for human rights.

‘For those who died for democracy in China’
In 1991, Pelosi and other politicians visited China. During this, he waved a banner on Tiananmen Square on the completion of two years of violence, which read, ‘For those who died for democracy in China’. In 2002, he handed Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao 4 letters from members of Congress raising human rights issues, which he refused to accept because he was on an official visit to the US. In 2009, Speaker Pelosi traveled to China and received a letter from President Hu Jintao calling for the release of political prisoners.

Leading the US Congressional Delegation to Tibet
Pelosi has also raised the issue of Tibet. “After sharing a decades-long personal friendship with the Dalai Lama, he presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama in 2007. According to his website, in November 2015, he led a US congressional delegation to Tibet, teaching Tibetan students and leaders and advocated for Tibet’s “Tibetan autonomy and the preservation of the Tibetan language, culture and religion”.

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