{"id":1583569,"date":"2022-08-01T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583569"},"modified":"2022-08-01T19:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:18:34","slug":"pelosi-aboard-military-aircraft-near-taiwan-white-house-confirms-amid-escalating-china-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-aboard-military-aircraft-near-taiwan-white-house-confirms-amid-escalating-china-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Aboard Military Aircraft Near Taiwan, White House Confirms Amid Escalating China Threats"},"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\">26<\/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-aboard-military-aircraft-near-taiwan-white-house-confirms-amid-escalating-china-threats%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=1583569&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 Nancy Pelosi is traveling through Asia aboard a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-military\">military<\/a> aircraft, the White House has confirmed less than a week after Chinese communist media personality suggested she should be shot out of the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is commonplace for the Speaker to travel aboard a U.S. military transport aircraft,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?522112-1\/white-house-warns-china-escalating-tensions-speaker-pelosi-visit-taiwan\">said<\/a> White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby during a press briefing on Aug. 1. \u201cThat\u2019s very typical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of our responsibility is to make sure that she can travel safely and securely and I can assure you that she will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby confirmed that \u201cthe speaker is flying aboard a military aircraft,\u201d just days after a Chinese state-owned media personality\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china-state-media-threatens-to-shoot-down-pelosis-plane-to-taiwan_4631189.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0that Pelosi should be shot down if she flew to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> with a military escort.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby did not specify if Pelosi had an armed escort in the air or not, but said that the White House, Pentagon, and national security team were monitoring the situation following increasingly hostile rhetoric from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to watch this very, very closely,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make sure that she has a safe and secure visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese communist furor of the trip has increased daily since it was first reported that Pelosi was considering making a stop in Taiwan amid her currently ongoing tour of Southeast Asia. The Chinese Communist Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp\">CCP<\/a>) has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-says-pelosis-taiwan-visit-not-a-good-idea-one-day-after-china-issues-threat_4612619.html\">vowed<\/a> \u201cforceful measures,\u201d and CCP leader Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/xi-to-biden-us-playing-with-fire-on-taiwan_4627968.html\">told<\/a> President Joe Biden that the United States was \u201cplaying with fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said that Beijing\u2019s \u201cirresponsible rhetoric\u201d created tension without cause. The United States\u2019 policy regarding Taiwan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> had not changed he said, and Pelosi\u2019s rumored trip would be in line with previous trips made by U.S. officials to the democratically-governed island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Speaker has the right to visit Taiwan and the Speak of the House has visited Taiwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is traveling through Asia aboard a U.S. military aircraft, the White House has confirmed less than a week after Chinese communist media personality suggested she should be shot out of the air. \u201cIt is commonplace for the Speaker to travel aboard a U.S. military transport aircraft,\u201d said White House National Security [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"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-1583569","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\/1583569","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583569\/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=1583569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}