️China’s People Liberation Army announced military drills encircling Taiwan, moments after a US Air Force-operated Boeing C-40C landed in the region with House of Representatives’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi onboard. As per China’s People Liberation Army’s Eastern Command, the military drill will start tonight and will include long-range artillery firing in the Taiwan Straits as well as missile tests.
China cries foul on Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
Earlier in an official statement, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan a disregard of China’s ‘strong opposition and serious representations’. The Ministry called it a strong violation of the ‘one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués’.
China strongly urged the United States “to stop playing the ‘Taiwan card’ and using Taiwan to contain China. It should stop meddling on Taiwan and interfering in China’s internal affairs. It should stop supporting and conniving at ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces in any form. It should stop its acts of saying one thing but doing the opposite on the Taiwan question.”
China said, “It should stop distorting, obscuring and hollowing out the one-China principle. It must take credible actions to observe strictly the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-U.S. joint communiqués, deliver on the ‘five noes’ commitment made by the U.S. leadership (i.e. not seek a ‘new Cold War’; not seek to change China’s system; the revitalization of its alliances is not against China; not support ‘Taiwan independence’; not look for conflict with China), and not go further down the wrong and dangerous path.”