US Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan

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The US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi announced that she would be heading a congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific region on Sunday.

Kaohsiung, 2 August 2022 (TDI): There are reports emerging, and the Flight Tracker of the SPAR19 Carrying the Congressional delegation to the Asian tour is presumably landing in Taiwan. The Flight radar is announcing.

Despite several warnings and announcements made, US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is heading the congressional delegation on a controversial trip to Asia and is landing in Taiwan.

In the earlier announcement, Taiwan was not in the congressional itinerary announced by the Pelosi office.

US Speaker’s visit to Taiwan

As many speculated, some officials from Taiwan and the US had anonymously announced that the Speaker was coming to Taiwan.

With no specific official announcements so far, people rely heavily on following the plane’s route on FlightRadar.

Almost 300,000 users are following every move of SPAR19, a US Air Force-operated Boeing C-40C.

This is unprecedented as one of the most watched Flights in the tracker’s history. Even the link went down for a while and was later restored.

Taiwan’s Liberty Times newspaper had earlier reported that Pelosi is expected to arrive at 10:20 pm local time via private plane at Songshan airport in Taipei, which also hosts a military base. And according to the latest report, the flight carrying Pelosi and the delegation has landed in Taipei Airport.

The SPAR19 flight took off from Kuala Lumpur’s Subang Airport and headed east toward Borneo island instead of the northeast to Taiwan, bypassing the South China Sea.

It is noteworthy that with so many people following the plane’s information, SPAR19 has become one of the world’s top 10 most tracked flights.

The speculations turned true when the US-Navy, under the name of regular deployments announced the positioning of four US warships in the east of Taiwan.

Moreover, the US has positioned an entire Aircraft Carrier strike group and more than 20 F-35B fighter jets near the Taiwan strait.

It is also reported that about 8 American fighters have urgently taken off from air bases in Japan to ensure security during the Speaker’s visit to Taiwan.

Her visit is expected to cost $90 million for security. On the other hand, the Taiwan legislative building is already making arrangements for the US Speaker’s visit in Taiwan.

China’s Response

On the speculations of Nancy Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan, China has warned of a resolute response and countermeasures.

The spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, said on Monday that China is keeping a close watch on the reports of the US Speaker’s visit.

He also said that China would take strong countermeasures if Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan on behalf of Congress. Moreover, he warned that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never sit idly.

He said China would take strong measures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Zhang Meifang, Consul General of China in Belfast reported the ongoing protests of around 100 anti-war activists and Chinese Americans.

The protest is going on outside the federal building in San Francisco to cancel the possible trip of the US Speaker to the island of Taiwan.

With the speculations turning true of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China has also started deploying its military warships around the unofficial dividing line.

Moreover, the so-called Presidential office of Taiwan also announced that an overseas DDoS hit its official website. The attack traffic was 200 times more than that on a regular day which caused the website to be down for 20 minutes.

It has also been reported that war alarms have been activated throughout China as the Chinese jets took off. This cyberattack just ahead of the Speaker’s visit is making many see the rising tensions.

Latest Updates

The latest news of Nancy Pelosi’s plane landing at Taiwan’s airport, presumably in Taipei. While China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson responds that such a high-ranking official’s visit to Taiwan on a military Aircraft means that this is by no means an unofficial action.

While en route and soon after landing in Taiwan, Nancy Pelosi tweets about her Washingtonpost column about the reason for her visit to Taiwan.

Nancy Pelosi will go down in history in raising some of the most controversial provocative trips to Taiwan. This visit will not augment the regional peace and security well when even the warning was issued from China considering an important “One China Policy” which the US has agreed to respect.

Global Response to the Controversial Visit 
Belarus

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus issued a statement on the controversial landing of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan.

 

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