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WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no reason for China and the US to “brawl” when house speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan on an Asia trip she’s expected to take soon, the White House said Friday, citing international Tensions surrounding her trip underscored plans.
The comments from National Security Council spokesman John Kirby came as Pelosi, D-Calif., offered a reason for a visit to Asia that she has yet to publicly acknowledge. Kirby was asked Friday whether the US has noticed Chinese military preparations because of its travel plans.
“There’s no reason to let it get to that point, to get into a fistfight, to get into heightened physical tension,” Kirby said in the White House. “There is no reason for that, as there has been no change in US policy regarding One China.”
Pelosi just seemed to stop saying she’d be traveling there, saying, “I’m really excited that if we go to the countries that you’ll hear about the conversations along the way,” she’d be having there.
She noted President Joe Biden’s focus on Asia and referred to his recent trip to South Korea and Japan. And we want the United States Congress to be part of that initiative.”
Pelosi and her aides have not confirmed her travel plans or named the countries she might visit, citing safety concerns. China considers Taiwan its own territory and has said it could reclaim democracy on the island by force.
For more than four decades, the US has followed a ‘one China’ policy in which it recognizes Beijing as the government of China while maintaining informal and defense relations with Taiwan.
China has strongly objected to any visit by Pelosi to Taiwan, warning against “resolute and firm measures” if she does.
Biden said earlier this month that the Pentagon doesn’t think a Pelosi trip to Taiwan is a good idea right now. Senior defense officials who briefed reporters on Friday declined to discuss any preparations for a trip.
Biden has designed his foreign policy in part to counter China’s growing economic and military power. Pelosi’s itinerary has also become a domestic political issue, with some Republicans urging her to visit Taiwan as a show to stand up to Beijing.
Kirby said Friday that Pelosi “needs no approval or disapproval” for travel. And he said, “The speaker has the right to travel aboard a military aircraft.”
The military routinely supplies planes for travel by lawmakers, which presidents have the rarely used power to deny. In a highly unusual move, then-President Donald Trump blocked Pelosi and other lawmakers from using a military plane to visit Afghanistan during a 2019 battle over a government shutdown and after telling him his State of the Union address. to postpone speech.