US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping reacted like “a scared tyrant” to her visit to Taiwan.
Pelosi spoke with NBC on Tuesday about her tour of several Asian countries last week, including the island of Taiwan, which provoked the fury of the Beijing authorities, who claim sovereignty over the territory.
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Beijing saw the visit by Pelosi, the third-highest state figure in the United States, as a provocation.
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Xi Jinping “is trying to isolate Taiwan (…). We will not be complicit in your isolation of Taiwan,” Pelosi said.
I believe that [Xi] is in a fragile situation. He has problems with his economy. He is acting like a scared tyrant,” he added.
Pelosi stressed that the president of the People’s Republic of China is preparing to be re-elected by the Chinese Communist Party later this year for a third term.
In an apparent show of force after Pelosi’s visit, China began holding military exercises near Taiwan, including inside Taiwanese territorial waters, exercises that have been going on for nearly a week.
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For Pelosi, it is not up to the president of China “to control the agendas of members of Congress or anyone else who wants to visit Taiwan.”
We were not going to take Taiwan off our list because the president of Taiwan [Tsai Ing-wen] He invited us,” he said.
Taiwan’s foreign minister accused Beijing on Tuesday of using military exercises to prepare for an invasion of the island.
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Beijing “used the military exercises to prepare for the invasion of Taiwan,” said Joseph Wu, at a press conference in Taipei, after the maneuvers of the island’s armed forces that took place on Tuesday.
“China’s real intention is to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and throughout the region,” he stressed.
It is carrying out large-scale military exercises and missile launches, as well as cyberattacks, a disinformation campaign and economic coercion to weaken the morale of the Taiwanese people,” he added.
Taiwanese armed forces conducted a live-fire artillery exercise on Tuesday to simulate defending the island from a possible Chinese attack, with another scheduled for Thursday.
China considers Taiwan as one of its provinces, which must be reunified with the rest of the territory, since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when the nationalists lost the conflict to the communists and found refuge on the island.
The Taiwanese military said Monday that the exercises were already scheduled and was not a response to the Chinese exercises in grade.
The island, with a population of around 23 million, regularly holds military exercises simulating a Chinese invasion and last month held maritime exercises.
Source: Observadora
