MADRID, 26 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Defense, Tan Kefei, has warned that the Chinese Army will not sit idly by before the possible visit of the president of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan.
According to Tan, the United States must fulfill its promise “not to support Taiwan’s independence”, so that if Washington insists on Pelosi’s visit to the island, China will act immediately to undermine any foreign interference or pro-independence scenario. .
The spokesman for the Defense portfolio has stressed that this hypothetical response would be aimed at all times to safeguard China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
“If Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan, it would seriously violate the ‘One China’ principle and the stipulations of the three China-US joint communiqués…and seriously damage the political foundation of China-US relations.” , has influenced Tan.
Finally, the Chinese official stressed that Pelosi’s possible trip to the island would cause “extremely serious” damage to relations between Beijing and Washington, and would even lead to a further escalation of tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
Relations between China and Taiwan were suspended in 1949, after the forces of the Chinese nationalist Kuomintang party, led by Chiang Kai Shek, suffered a defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party of China and moved to the island of Taiwan.
The Asian giant considers Taiwan as its rebel province, despite the fact that the island has declared its independence and has the support of the United States and the European Union.
In this context, Pelosi’s possible visit, which could take place in August, would have a historic scope because she would be the first president of the Lower House of the United States Congress to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich in 1997.
