{"id":1583119,"date":"2022-08-01T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583119"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:05:30","slug":"white-house-responds-to-reports-saying-pelosi-will-visit-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-responds-to-reports-saying-pelosi-will-visit-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Responds to Reports Saying Pelosi Will Visit 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%2Fwhite-house-responds-to-reports-saying-pelosi-will-visit-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=1583119&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>The White House on Monday said House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) has the \u201cright to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>\u201d amid reports she may touch down in the country this week and as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued several warnings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason for Beijing to turn a potential visit, consistent with longstanding U.S. policy, into some sort of crisis or conflict,\u201d Pentagon spokesman and\u00a0White House National Security Council communications director John Kirby told reporters Monday, adding\u00a0\u201chas the right to visit Taiwan\u201d and that \u201cnothing has changed\u201d about U.S. policy in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi has not confirmed or denied potentially visiting Taiwan, which has been self-governed since 1949 and sees itself as a sovereign country. The CCP has long claimed that the island nation belongs to it despite Taiwan having never been ruled by the Chinese regime.<\/p>\n<p>Both\u00a0CNN and the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reported that Pelosi will head to Taiwan, although the timing remains unclear. Pelosi\u2019s office declined to comment to several media outlets on those reports, coming a day after she announced a trip to several Asian nations without mentioning Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe speaker has not confirmed any travel plans and it is for the Speaker to do so, and her staff,\u201d Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1554168203613454336\">added<\/a>. \u201cWe won\u2019t be commenting or speculating about the stops on her trip \u2026 Congress is an independent branch of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CCP officials on Monday warned that the Chinese military would not \u201csit idly by\u201d if Pelosi visited the island. In a readout of a call last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden that the United States would be \u201cplaying with fire\u201d if it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> appears to be positioning itself to take further steps in the coming days and perhaps over longer time horizons,\u201d Kirby said Monday. \u201cNothing about this potential visit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Monday said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has the \u201cright to visit Taiwan\u201d amid reports she may touch down in the country this week and as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued several warnings. \u201cThere is no reason for Beijing to turn a potential visit, consistent with longstanding U.S. policy, into [\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-1583119","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\/1583119","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=1583119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583119\/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=1583119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}