China shall be deemed to have issued clear personal warnings to the Biden administration of the Speaker of the House of Representatives‘ planned trip next month. Citing six people familiar with the situation, the Financial Times suggested that private rhetoric had gone so far as to warn of a possible military response, possibly involving the military that prevented her plane from landing, or even Chinese planes that hit it. challenge in the air.
Danil Bochkov, an expert with the Russian Council for International Affairs, suggested that in the circumstances an ascent was inevitable.
He tweeted: “I feel rational thinking will overcome all other alternatives and everyone will back off.
“For Pelosi, the least painful pretext is not to visit (minor) health problems or super IMPORTANT tasks, which cannot be postponed.
“China will pacify the story accordingly and recall threats.”
Mr. Bochkov responded to a message from Derek Grossman, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation, who warned: “Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan brings difficult points for all parties. China should respond or lose credibility.
“Taiwan would not respect the US if it turned down the visit or risked retaliation from the PRC if it happened.
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“But I don’t know what its status is.”
Also on Wednesday, CIA Director Bill Burns said it was important not to underestimate “President Xi’s determination to assert China’s control” over Taiwan, which Beijing considers part of China despite being nominally autonomous.
He explained: “Our feeling is that it probably has less bearing on whether in a few years the Chinese leadership could choose to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they would do it.”
Ms. Pelosi, who insisted on the matter, then declined to discuss the situation, citing security concerns.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that any visit to Taiwan by Ms. Pelosi would seriously undermine China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and that the United States would bear the consequences of their response.
Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said: “If Chairman Pelosi visits Taiwan, it would be a serious violation of the One China Principle and the provisions of the three joint China-US communiqués and harm China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“Should the US insist on making the visit, China will take strong action to react decisively and take countermeasures. We mean what we say.”
Taiwan, officially the People’s Republic of China, is located just 200 miles from the south coast of China.
It has 23 million inhabitants and a democratically elected president, Tsai Ing-wen.