{"id":1910568,"date":"2023-04-06T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-praises-mccarthy-meeting-with-taiwan-president\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T06:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:28:53","slug":"pelosi-praises-mccarthy-meeting-with-taiwan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-praises-mccarthy-meeting-with-taiwan-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Praises McCarthy Meeting With Taiwan President"},"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\">14<\/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-praises-mccarthy-meeting-with-taiwan-president%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=1910568&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-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0406\/c214e689-0912-484e-a8ac-f9174a9f3876\/audio.mp3?length=3597165&#038;duration=300\"><\/div>\n<p> Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has extended her support\u00a0to her successor Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-Calif.) historic meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California.<\/p>\n<p> Speaking at\u00a0the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,\u00a0McCarthy welcomed\u00a0Tsai, referred to her as a &#8220;great friend of America.&#8221; The meeting was attended by more\u00a0than a dozen members of both parties\u00a0and marked the first high-level visit of its kind on\u00a0American soil. <\/p>\n<p> The meeting\u00a0risked further tensions with China, which had previously warned of retaliation should Tsai and McCarthy\u00a0meet or other U.S. senior figures.\u00a0However, McCarthy affirmed\u00a0his efforts to speed up arms deliveries to Taiwan in the face of increasing aggression from Beijing and boost\u00a0economic cooperation with the self-ruled island, particularly\u00a0in the realms of trade and technology. <\/p>\n<p> Pelosi, who had a strained relationship with McCarthy when she was Speaker and he was the minority leader, lauded her successor&#8217;s leadership after the meeting. \u201cToday\u2019s meeting between President Tsai of Taiwan and Speaker McCarthy is to be commended for its leadership, its bipartisan participation, and its distinguished and historic venue,\u201d Pelosi said in a brief\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n<p> Despite warnings from China, which views Taiwan as part of its territory, Pelosi visited Taiwan in August 2022. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5174786\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/05\/id5174786-Tsai-1200x900.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\tTaiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a press conference alongside House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) during a meeting with a bipartisan congressional delegation at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on April 5, 2023. (John Fredricks\/ The Epoch Times)<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2> China Views Meeting as Threat <\/h2>\n<p>China condemned this week&#8217;s meeting and began staging military drills around Taiwan, launching missiles and conducting extensive military patrols.The country also suspended planned climate talks with the United States and restricted military-to-military communication with the Pentagon. Pelosi&#8217;s visit further strained the already tense relationship between the two countries, following the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the United States.<\/p>\n<p> In a statement released on Thursday, China&#8217;s foreign ministry condemned the meeting calling\u00a0it an &#8220;erroneous act of collusion&#8221; and a &#8220;disregard of China&#8217;s serious representations and repeated warnings.&#8221; The statement further added that\u00a0&#8220;Other US officials and lawmakers also had contact with Tsai and provided the platform for her separatist rhetoric for &#8216;Taiwan independence.&#8217; This is essentially the United States acting with Taiwan to connive at &#8216;Taiwan independence&#8217; separatists&#8217; political activities in the United States, conduct official contact with Taiwan and upgrade the substantive relations with Taiwan, and frame it as a &#8216;transit&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is a serious violation of the one-China principle and the provisions of the three China-US joint communiqu\u00e9s. It seriously infringes upon China\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity and sends an egregiously wrong signal to the &#8216;Taiwan independence&#8217; separatist forces. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns it,&#8221;\u00a0the statement read. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4639927\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/03\/GettyImages-1412590000-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t(L-R) U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) poses for photographs with Taiwan\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen, at the president\u2019s office in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 3, 2022. (Handout\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>McCaul Leads Delegation in Taiwan<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House\u00a0Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has commended her successor Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-Calif.) historic meeting with\u00a0Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California in a rare sign of support. McCarthy introduced\u00a0Tsai as a \u201cgreat friend of America\u201d as he hosted her at the\u00a0Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley along with more than a dozen lawmakers from both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1910569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3663,4470,3928,7360,3669,9105],"class_list":["post-1910568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-mccarthy","tag-meeting","tag-pelosi","tag-praises","tag-president","tag-taiwan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910568","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=1910568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}