: Tussle over Taiwan #IndiaNEWS #News When US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force  jet, she became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled

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When US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force  jet, she became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island.
China instantly announced military maneuvers in retaliation, even as Taiwanese officials welcomed her. China said over 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in the live-fire military drills surrounding Taiwan in the past two days, while announcing mainly symbolic sanctions against Pelosi and her family. It declared stopping all dialogue with the United States on major issues, including crucial climate cooperation between the two that led to the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord.
A joint US-China deal to fight climate change struck by Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-President Barack Obama in November, 2014, has frequently been hailed as a turning point that led to the breakthrough Paris agreement in which nearly every nation in the world pledged to try to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases. Seven years later, in Glasgow, another US-China deal helped smooth over bumps to another international climate deal. China and the US are the world’s No. 1 and No. 2 climate polluters, together producing nearly 40% of all fossil-fuel emissions.
China’s actions come ahead of a key congress of the ruling Communist Party later this year at which President Xi is expected to obtain a third five-year term as party leader. With the economy stumbling, the party has stoked nationalism and issued near-daily attacks on the government of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, which refuses to recognise Taiwan as part of China.
China has accused the Biden administration of an attack on Chinese sovereignty, although Pelosi is head of the legislative branch of government and US President Joe Biden had no authority to prevent her visit. White House spokesman John Kirby called China’s military actions a “concern to Taiwan, to us, and to our partners around the world. �
Why did Pelosi go to Taiwan?
Pelosi has made a mission over decades of showing support for embattled democracy movements. Those include a trip in 1991 to Tiananmen Square, where she and other lawmakers unrolled a small banner supporting democracy.
She led a congressional delegation to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the spring. “We must stand by Taiwan,� she said in an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on her arrival in Taiwan. She cited the commitment that the US made to a democratic Taiwan under a 1979 law. “It is essential that America and our allies make clear that we never give in to autocrats,� she wrote.
However, the Biden administration, and Pelosi, say the United States remains committed to its ‘one-China policy.

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