US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan in August, the Financial Times reported, citing six people familiar with the matter.

The Financial Times quoted two people familiar with the matter as saying that “there is a difference of opinion within the US administration over whether Pelosi should visit Taiwan.”

The US State Department has reportedly approved the sale of up to $108 million in military technical support to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States.

In turn, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin stressed yesterday that “the US sale of weapons to the Chinese region of Taiwan seriously violates the One China principle and the three joint communiqués between China and the United States, seriously undermines China’s sovereignty and security interests, and seriously harms China-US relations, and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”

Notably, the island of Taiwan, located in East Asia off the coast of China, is one of the most sensitive issues for Beijing, which considers it an integral part of Greater China and rejects any attempt or separatist actions aimed at its independence.