{"id":1581377,"date":"2022-07-31T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581377"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:21:12","slug":"pelosi-reveals-trip-to-asia-but-makes-no-mention-of-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-reveals-trip-to-asia-but-makes-no-mention-of-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Reveals Trip to Asia but Makes No Mention of Taiwan"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fpelosi-reveals-trip-to-asia-but-makes-no-mention-of-taiwan%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=1581377&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>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) confirmed Sunday that she is visiting Asia but made no mention of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker said she will visit\u00a0Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan with a congressional delegation, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/73122\">statement<\/a> issued early on Sunday, to \u201chold high-level meetings to discuss how we can further advance our shared interests and values, including peace and security, economic growth and trade, the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, human rights, and democratic governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her comments did not address a potential stop in Taiwan amid threats issued by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and an apparent mobilization of the regime\u2019s military in the South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> Sea. The CCP has long claimed that Taiwan, which has been self-governed since 1949 and never controlled by the regime, is part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, our Congressional delegation travels to the Indo\u2013Pacific to reaffirm America\u2019s strong and unshakeable commitment to our allies and friends in the region,\u201d Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, amid reports that Pelosi would visit the island nation, President Joe Biden briefly told reporters that the U.S. military \u201cthinks it\u2019s not a good idea right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese regime propagandist with the state-run Global Times deleted a Twitter post Saturday asserting that Beijing could shoot down Pelosi\u2019s plane if it is escorted by the military to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf US fighter jets escort Pelosi\u2019s plane into Taiwan, it is [an] invasion,\u201d Hu Xijin, a columnist for the CCP-controlled Global Times, wrote on the platform. \u201cThe [People\u2019s Liberation Army] has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi\u2019s plane and the US fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf ineffective, then shoot them down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a comment by a Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army unit on Weibo, a heavily censored Twitter-like social media site used by mainland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) confirmed Sunday that she is visiting Asia but made no mention of Taiwan. The speaker said she will visit\u00a0Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan with a congressional delegation, according to a statement issued early on Sunday, to \u201chold high-level meetings to discuss how we can further advance our shared interests [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1581377","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\/1581377","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581377\/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=1581377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}