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Three people familiar with the situation said Pelosi would meet Tsai in Taipei as part of a wider visit to Asia that began in Singapore on Sunday. Pelosi did ...

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry says it has no comment on reports of Mrs Pelosi's travel plans. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Taiwan rejects China’s sovereignty claims and says only its people can decide the island’s future. This is an important trip for the Speaker to be on and we’re going to do whatever we can to support her.” “China has reiterated in no ambiguous terms its opposition to Taiwan separatism. The US has reiterated many times its one-China policy has not changed and that it is against any change to the status quo by either side of the Taiwan Strait,” he said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said earlier on Monday that it would be “a gross interference in China’s internal affairs” if MrsPelosi visits Taiwan, and warned that it would lead to “very serious developments and consequences”.Pelosi visits Taiwan, and warned that it would lead to “very serious developments and consequences”. A visit by Mrs Pelosi, who is second in the line of succession to the US presidency and a long-time critic of China, would come amid worsening ties between Washington and Beijing.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official ...

But on the other hand, you could say maybe that's when Taiwan also needs to be shown the strength and the support." In 1991, Pelosi unfurled a black-and-white banner in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to commemorate victims of the 1989 massacre, which said, "To those who died for democracy." "On the Taiwan question, we have made our stance loud and clear," Pengyu said. Asked if the US was prepared for fallout with China over the visit, Kirby said that "there is no change to our policy. Officials also believe the Chinese leadership doesn't completely grasp the political dynamics in the United States, leading to a misunderstanding over the significance of Pelosi's potential visit. "And so if the speaker does decide to visit and China tries to create some kind of crisis or otherwise escalate tensions, that would be entirely on Beijing," Blinken said. This is an important trip for the speaker to be on and we're going to do whatever we can to support her," Kirby continued. Administration officials are concerned Pelosi's trip comes at a particularly tense moment, as Xi is expected to seek an unprecedented third term at the upcoming Chinese Communist Party congress. Biden said last month that the US military opposed Pelosi visiting Taiwan, though since then has refused to elaborate on the warnings. "Congress is an independent, coequal branch of government," Blinken said at the United Nations on Monday afternoon. "We would like to tell the US once again that China is standing by, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army will never sit idly by. Though China's military did not mention Taiwan, the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command said it would "bury incoming enemies" in a video posted online Monday showing off its weaponry and fighting tactics.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to travel to Taiwan this week, according to a congressional official and a Taiwanese official familiar with the itinerary.

Biden himself had said the military “thinks it’s not a good idea right now” for Pelosi to travel to the island. American and Taiwanese figures have grown bolder about showing their support for the relationship, rankling China in the process. Monday also marks the People’s Liberation Army’s 95th birthday, a time when exercises normally ramp up to mark the occasion. Pelosi has been among the most consistent China hawks over the last three decades, even taking on her own party when it comes to the threat Beijing poses to U.S. security and economic interests. Meanwhile, in Washington, fears have grown in recent months that Xi plans to invade the island. Pelosi was in Singapore on Monday as part of a four-country swing through Asia. She is also scheduled to visit Malaysia, South Korea and Japan during the trip. POLITICO is withholding the date of Pelosi’s expected arrival. The Japan-based USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier has been patrolling the South China Sea for the past week, and late last month, the destroyer USS Benfold transited the Taiwan Strait three times within a week — a move Beijing blasted as a “provocation” as it considers the narrow waterway between mainland China and Taiwan part of its internal waters. And China’s aggression has led current and former officials, including lawmakers from both parties, to push for a wholesale change in America’s posture toward Taiwan, including the scrapping of the so-called “strategic ambiguity” doctrine that has guided U.S. policy toward Taiwan for the past four decades. Bi-khim Hsiao, the democratic island’s de facto representative to the U.S., attended Biden’s inauguration. The trip would make her the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the self-governing island in decades. The speaker is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit in decades.