Pelosi lands in Taiwan, Beijing responds with jets and missiles

The president of the American House

, provoking the wrath of Beijing, which responded on impulse by sending its jets into the Strait and then announcing military maneuvers to besiege the rebel island.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador to Beijing, Nicholas Burns, in a very late evening, expressing "

"for the visit to Taiwan of the speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi. Deputy Minister Xie Feng spoke of" serious provocation "and" violation of the principle of One China ", according to the official media. The US government" should have held back Pelosi's unscrupulous move and prevent her from going against the historical trend, but instead went along with her and collaborated with her, which exacerbates tension in the Taiwan Strait and severely damages China-US ties.

"" We are monitoring Pelosi's trip and we will be vigilant to ensure her safety. "National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a press briefing reiterating that the mission to Taiwan does not change US policy towards island and China.

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The veteran Democrat, champion of rights, has assured her presence and that of the congressional delegation to honor "America's unwavering commitment to supporting the

".

She was warmly welcomed by Foreign Ministers Joseph Wu at Taipei's Songshan airport, awaiting Wednesday's meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen, destined to fuel the fury of China, which has been pressing everything for days. camp against what he calls an "attack on his sovereignty".

It is the first visit to Taipei by a House speaker since 1997, after that of Newt Gingrich, widely reported as a complex and new headache for Joe Biden's administration.

Unofficially, the White House and the Pentagon have made no secret of their opposition to the Taipei stage, which has matured in a context in which US-China relations are at their lowest in recent decades.

In late July, answering an ad hoc question, Biden reported that "the military thinks it's not a good idea right now."

For weeks, the president's officials tried to discourage the speaker's plans until they gave up and tried to limit the damage, tying the mission to Pelosi's will alone.

When Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui received Gingrich in 1997 he said a phase that infuriated the

then Chinese President Jiang Zemin: "We argue that the 'One China' refers to a unified, democratic and free Chinese nation."

Also in that circumstance a military reaction arose that was nipped in the bud by the arrival of the US aircraft carriers in the Taiwan Strait.

An episode of other times that President Xi Jinping remembers very well since he was then deputy secretary of the CCP of Fujian, the province opposite Taiwan, but this time he is not willing, with a China that has become an economic and military power, to collect a another American blow, all the more so in view of the XX Congress of the Communist Party which in the autumn should entrust him with an unprecedented third term at the helm of the CCP.

The Chinese media have announced the sending of Su-35 fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army into the Taiwan Strait (hypothesis denied by the Taipei Defense which denounced the incursion of 21 aircraft) in the imminent landing, while immediately after a barrage of press releases, he condemned the arrival of Pelosi, at all levels.

The Foreign Ministry issued a "firm condemnation" and spoke of "serious political provocation";

the Ministry of Defense has announced "joint military operations" and targeted around Taiwan with the armed forces "on alert", as well as long-range artillery fire and missile launches in the waters east of the island.

While the CCP Taiwan Affairs Office warned that no one "

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' policy," National Security spokesman John Kirby reiterated today.

On this point, Pelosi specified that the visit "does not contradict" US policy towards Taiwan and China.

The United States is opposed to "unilateral attempts to change the status quo" in the Strait, he added on Twitter and in a statement, echoing Biden's stance to Xi.

The atmosphere, however, heated up well before the speaker landed from Kuala Lumpur, the second stop on the tour in Asia.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, head of the media division and with the qualification of deputy minister, threatened "resolute countermeasures" against the United States, returning to the press conference for the first time since February 24, the day of the "special military mission" of Russia in Ukraine.

You assured that the US "

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, called Pelosi's mission a "

" and "justified" the Chinese attitude.

"It's all stormy. And from China's point of view, this visit by Pelosi is another example of how the US won't stop pushing Taiwan to think for itself, which is exactly what Beijing doesn't want," she tweeted. Derek J. Grossman, RAND Corporation think tank analyst.

A bond that Beijing wants to break starting from military and economic pressures.