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A US congressional delegation led by Senator Ed Markey landed in Taiwan on Sunday for a two-day visit, a trip that risks keeping tensions with China high after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit earlier this month .
As Bloomberg reports, the delegation will meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and local lawmakers, according to a Foreign Ministry statement.
They will discuss bilateral relations, regional security, trade and investment, global supply chains, climate change and other important issues of mutual interest, the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embassy, said separately.
The delegation includes representatives of the US House of Representatives John Garamendi, Alan Lowenthal, Don Beyer and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen.
Pelosi’s stance on Taiwan drew a strong response from China, which conducted its most provocative military exercises in decades in the wake of her visit. Beijing denounced the trip as a violation of a decades-old US pledge not to formally recognize the government of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.
While she was the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan in a quarter-century, visits by other members of Congress are common. During her meeting with Taiwan’s leader, Pelosi noted that several US senators, including the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat Bob Menendez, had visited Taiwan this year without drawing a firestorm of criticism from Beijing.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Chinese President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Joe Biden shortly before Pelosi’s visit that her trip would have unspecified consequences, but also said he had no intention of going to war with the US .
At the same time, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said eleven Chinese military aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait or entered the island’s air defense zone, as Beijing continues military activities near the island it claims.
Source: Capital
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