Mike Pompeo Offers to Visit Taiwan With Nancy Pelosi Amid Outrage From Beijing

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) sent a message to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Twitter on July 24 saying that he would like to visit Taiwan with her if she decides to go in August.

The offer is the latest addition to voices of support for a potential Pelosi visit Taiwan, although U.S. President Joe Biden has said he and the military believe “it’s not a good idea right now.”

Several U.S. representatives have also voiced support for a visit by the House speaker.

Across the Taiwan Strait, Beijing and Taipei have opposing view on the potential trip, with the Chinese Communist regime opposing the high level visit, threatening “serious consequences.”

Pelosi said of any intentions to visit Taiwan: “I don’t ever discuss my travel plans … it’s a security issue,” she told reporters on July 21. She then said that deterring China from attacking Taiwan is “a very major issue,” and “it’s important for us to show support for Taiwan.”

Pelosi said that supporting Taiwan against Beijing’s threats doesn’t mean that the United States stands for Taiwan’s independence, as the Chinese Communist Party claims.

“That’s up to Taiwan to decide,” the House speaker said.

She said that Biden and the U.S. military might have been expressing concerns that Beijing might shoot down her plane “or something like that” in their comments the previous day, adding, “I haven’t heard it from the President.”

The Chinese regime claims the self-ruled liberal democratic island as its own, despite the fact that Taiwan is a de facto independent island, with its own military, democratically-elected government, and constitution.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at The Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 25, 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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