Pelosi: ‘We Will Not Allow China to Isolate Taiwan’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the United States would not allow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to isolate Taiwan from the world and that the CCP is attempting to unilaterally change the status quo regarding the island government.

“We will not allow China to isolate Taiwan,” Pelosi said during a press conference on Aug. 10.

The comments come a week after a controversial visit by the House speaker to Taiwan, which CCP authorities used as justification to begin unprecedented military exercises in the seas and skies encircling the island.

Pelosi said that the CCP was manufacturing a crisis over her visit to Taiwan as a “pretext” to “intensify” its ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment against Taiwan.

The CCP maintains that Taiwan is a rogue province of China and has vowed to unite the island with China, by force if necessary. Democratic Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, however, and has never been controlled by the CCP.

The United States and China maintain assurances that neither side will attempt to unilaterally change this status quo through force or coercion.

Pelosi noted that previous congressional delegations to Taiwan did not elicit the overbearing response from the CCP that her delegation suddenly did. To that end, she framed her visit to the island within the larger struggle between democratic and authoritarian regimes.

“We’re talking about the struggle between democracy and autocracy,” Pelosi said.

“We didn’t go there to talk about China. We went there to praise Taiwan. To say China cannot isolate Taiwan.”

“That was our purpose, to support this thriving democracy.”

Pelosi also said that the CCP’s aggression toward Taiwan was negatively impacting everyday Americans, and that the strain to the international supply chain caused by China’s de facto blockade of Taiwan would cause price increases for Americans.

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