Nancy Pelosi leaves Taiwan after visit that crossed China’s ‘red line’ [VIDEO]

The plane carrying U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took off Wednesday from Taipei’s Songshan Airport after a visit in which the official promised “the United States will not give up Taiwan,” angering China.

Before boarding a plane and continuing her tour of Asia with stops in South Korea and Japan, the politician wrote on her Twitter account: “Make no mistake. United States Commitment to the People Taiwan remain unchanged now and in the coming decades.

Nancy Pelosiwho spent less than 24 hours on the island, visited the Taiwanese parliament this morning and then met with the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, who presented him with an award for “supporting” the territory.

“The Success of the Taiwanese People”

After meeting with Tsai, Nancy Pelosi I declare that Taiwanwhich he called “a model for the region” represents a “contrast” with China while praising the “success of the Taiwanese people and their courage to become a more democratic country.”

In the afternoon, the official met with human rights activists in the Taiwanese capital, including Wuer Kaixi, one of the leaders of the student movement that led the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing that were repressed by China in 1989.

At the event held at Jingmei Park in Taipei, Nancy Pelosi He also spoke to a bookseller arrested and interrogated in China for selling Beijing-banned books at his Hong Kong bookstore Lam Wing-kee, and to activist Lee Ming-che, who was jailed for “subversion” in China between 2017 and 2022. year.

Chinese protest

In recent hours, Beijing has reacted to the trip, which it called “an unfortunate betrayal” and a “farce,” by deploying military forces in the strait. Taiwan and with sanctions on imports from the island.

Taiwanwith which the US does not maintain official relations, is one of the main reasons for the conflict between China and the US, primarily because Washington is the main supplier of weapons to the island and would be its biggest military ally in the event of a conflict with the Asian giant.

China insists on “reunification” of the People’s Republic of China with the island, which has been ruled autonomously since the Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists withdrew from there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the Communists and continued the Republic of China regime, culminating in the Transition to Democracy in 1990 -s

(As reported by EFE)

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