Just 12 days after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s travel to Taiwan, which infuriated China, a delegation of American politicians is visiting Taiwan.
According to the American Institute in Taiwan, the five-person delegation, led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, will visit top authorities to discuss U.S.-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade, investment, and other problems. The institute speaks for the United States government, which maintains no formal relations with Taiwan.
The first of these is the declaration from 1978, the year that diplomatic relations were first established, which declares unequivocally that no relations between the United States and Taiwan shall be considered official. However, Pelosi comes in at number three on the list of American political leaders. She cannot, therefore, be presented in a casual setting. China will undoubtedly respond harshly.
At around 7 p.m. on Sunday, a government plane touched down at Songshan Airport in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The American Institute quickly after announcing the delegation will be in Taiwan on Sunday and Monday as part of a tour to Asia released a brief statement, however it wasn’t confirmed who was on board.
The other members of the delegation are Republican Rep.
Delegate from American Samoa Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, Democratic House members from California John Garamendi and Alan Lowenthal, and Virginia Don Beyer.
Even after the military drills were over, Chinese aeroplanes continued to fly over the Taiwan Strait’s midpoint every day, with at least 10 doing so on Sunday, according to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry.
By 5 p.m. on Sunday, the ministry said on its Twitter account that 22 Chinese military aircraft and six naval ships had been spotted in the vicinity of Taiwan.
More American legislators are visiting Taiwan days following Pelosi’s trip.
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