{"id":1590215,"date":"2022-08-05T07:07:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590215"},"modified":"2022-08-05T07:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:07:37","slug":"pelosi-says-us-wont-allow-china-to-isolate-taiwan-but-asia-visit-not-about-changing-status-quo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-us-wont-allow-china-to-isolate-taiwan-but-asia-visit-not-about-changing-status-quo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Says US \u2018Won\u2019t Allow China to Isolate Taiwan,\u2019 but Asia Visit \u2018Not About Changing Status Quo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-says-us-wont-allow-china-to-isolate-taiwan-but-asia-visit-not-about-changing-status-quo-2%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=1590215&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 United States will \u201cnot allow\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> to isolate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>,\u00a0U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)\u00a0said Friday during her Asia trip that has\u00a0infuriated Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi made the remarks in Tokyo, Japan, on the final leg of her Asian tour after the Democrat and\u00a0five other members of Congress arrived in the capital city late Thursday, having previously visited Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may try to keep Taiwan from visiting or participating in other places, but they will not isolate Taiwan by preventing us to travel there \u2026 We will not allow them to isolate Taiwan,\u201d Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi stressed that the visit to Asia was \u201cnot about changing the status quo\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about Taiwan Relations Act, U.S.-China policy, all pieces of legislation and agreements that established our relationship-have peace in Taiwan Straits and have status quo prevail,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/broadcasts\/1yNxaYgdDaXxj\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis isnt about me, this is about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi also\u00a0called the self-rules island \u201cone of the freest countries in the world\u201d and \u201ca great democracy with a thriving economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked how she feels her trip to Asia will impact relations between the United States and China, Pelosi said that while it is important that communication is maintained between the two nations, \u201cif we do not speak\u00a0out for human rights in China because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak about human rights any place in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/03\/Pelosi-departs-Taiwan-1200x801.jpg\"><\/a> U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks with Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (L) before boarding a plane at Taipei Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 3, 2022. (Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs\/Handout via Reuters) Human Rights Issues <\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker noted that while China has made progress in some areas, it is still a country of \u201ccontradictions\u201d\u00a0 and pointed to human rights issues such as reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will \u201cnot allow\u201d China to isolate\u00a0Taiwan,\u00a0U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)\u00a0said Friday during her Asia trip that has\u00a0infuriated Beijing. Pelosi made the remarks in Tokyo, Japan, on the final leg of her Asian tour after the Democrat and\u00a0five other members of Congress arrived in the capital city late Thursday, having previously visited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"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-1590215","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\/1590215","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590215\/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=1590215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}