{"id":1577177,"date":"2022-07-28T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577177"},"modified":"2022-07-28T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:33:20","slug":"pelosis-proposed-taiwan-trip-wins-bipartisan-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-proposed-taiwan-trip-wins-bipartisan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Proposed Taiwan Trip Wins Bipartisan Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosis-proposed-taiwan-trip-wins-bipartisan-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. Congress is rallying behind House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>\u2019s potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-trip\">trip<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> in seemingly bipartisan unity as lawmakers on both sides urge her to visit the self-governing island democracy despite warnings from China.<\/p>\n<p>The move has seen a rare intraparty rift emerging with President Joe Biden, who is wary about escalating tensions with China\u2019s communist regime. Pelosi, the top congressional Democrat and the third in line to the presidency, would be the highest-ranking U.S. politician since 1997 to travel to the island of Taiwan, which China has claimed as its own in past decades.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing had threatened \u201cserious consequences\u201d last week if the speaker follows through on her reported plan.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Biden cast doubt on the proposed visit, while Pelosi deflected questions about the trip, citing \u201ca security issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, she said at a news conference that it was \u201cimportant for us to show support for Taiwan\u201d and she believed Biden could be simply repeating warnings issued by the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important that she goes and it\u2019s important eventually that Biden gets a backbone,\u201d Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/26\/exclusive-sen-rick-scott-urges-pelosi-go-taiwan-important-biden-gets-backbone\/\">Breitbart News<\/a>. \u201cUnfortunately the Biden administration doesn\u2019t know how to have backbones, but we\u2019ve gotta stand up for our allies,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Policy Crisis\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said \u201ca major foreign policy crisis\u201d would occur if Washington bows down to China\u2019s threat by calling off the visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine what it will signal for the Chinese communists if they think they can threaten us into merely not traveling to Taiwan. It might in fact incite them and tempt them to go for the jugular in Taiwan,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-stopping-pelosis-taiwan-visit-create-major-foreign-policy-crisis-sen-cotton-says\">Fox News<\/a> on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a Republican who visited Taiwan in 1997, also called on Pelosi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Congress is rallying behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s potential trip to Taiwan in seemingly bipartisan unity as lawmakers on both sides urge her to visit the self-governing island democracy despite warnings from China. The move has seen a rare intraparty rift emerging with President Joe Biden, who is wary about escalating tensions with China\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}