{"id":43860,"date":"2022-08-03T14:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=43860"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:28:23","slug":"china-summoned-the-us-ambassador-over-pelosis-visit-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=43860","title":{"rendered":"China summoned the US ambassador over Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0China&#8217;s Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng has urgently summoned US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to protest US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 3. August . 2022 | Political News  .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xie Feng called Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan &#8220;vicious&#8221; and said it &#8220;seriously undermines peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait&#8221; and sends &#8220;wrong signals to separatist forces&#8221; who favor Taiwan independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s deputy foreign minister added that the US government should be held accountable.&nbsp;During a conversation with Nicholas Burns, he expressed &#8220;strong protest&#8221; against Washington&#8217;s actions.&nbsp;He called on the United States to &#8220;immediately correct the mistakes and take practical measures to eliminate the adverse consequences caused by Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This move is extremely egregious in nature and the consequences are extremely serious. The United States must not continue to follow the wrong path, increasing the tension in China-US relations and making the situation in the Taiwan Strait irreparable,&#8221; Xie Feng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan and China split in 1949 after the Communists won a civil war on the mainland.&nbsp;The US maintains informal relations and defense ties with Taiwan.&nbsp;Beijing, for its part, sees Washington&#8217;s official contacts with Taipei as an encouragement to make permanent the island&#8217;s decades-old de facto independence, a move US leaders say they do not support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, August 2, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi\u00a0arrived\u00a0in Taiwan.\u00a0According to local media, she is the highest-ranking US official to visit the island in more than 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has\u00a0warned\u00a0that its military &#8220;will not sit idly by&#8221; if Nancy Pelosi continues her visit.\u00a0China&#8217;s threats of retaliation have raised fears of a new crisis in the Taiwan Strait that could negatively impact global markets and supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, the White House\u00a0said\u00a0that Pelosi has the right to visit Taiwan.\u00a0It added that China appears ready to respond in the coming days, possibly with military provocations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0China&#8217;s Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng has urgently summoned US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to protest US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan.\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 3. 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Details&nbsp; Xie Feng called Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan &#8220;vicious&#8221; and said it &#8220;seriously undermines peace and stability in the Taiwan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750],"tags":[80,223,813,996,2399,1000,1024,1288,1854],"class_list":["post-43860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","tag-ambassador","tag-china","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-us","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions\/43867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}