{"id":1581524,"date":"2022-07-31T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581524"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:18:36","slug":"pelosi-confirms-trip-to-asia-makes-no-mention-of-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-confirms-trip-to-asia-makes-no-mention-of-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Confirms Trip to Asia, 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\">20<\/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-confirms-trip-to-asia-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=1581524&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 on July 31 that she\u2019s visiting Asia but made no mention of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker said she\u2019ll visit\u00a0Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan with a congressional delegation\u00a0to \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\u00a0according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/73122\">statement<\/a> issued early on July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments didn\u2019t 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-Pacific 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 she 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 July 30 Twitter post stating that Beijing could shoot down Pelosi\u2019s plane if it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf ineffective, then shoot them down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A comment by a Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army unit on Weibo, a heavily censored Twitter-like social media site used by mainland Chinese people, wrote to \u201cprepare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) confirmed on July 31 that she\u2019s heading to Asia this week to visit four countries but made no mention of Taiwan. The speaker said she\u2019ll visit\u00a0Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan with a congressional delegation\u00a0to \u201chold high-level meetings to discuss how we can further advance our shared interests and values, [\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-1581524","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\/1581524","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=1581524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581524\/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=1581524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}