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HEADLINE: China Launches Military Exercises as Pelosi Completes Taiwan Visit
TEASER: China has launched massive military exercises around Taiwan after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi completed her visit to Taipei in defiance of Beijing.
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China is warning U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan will have a "severe impact" on relations with the United States, while Pelosi made clear in Taipei that Washington will not abandon Taiwan in the face of threats from Beijing. VOA's Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports.))
((Video: Screenshot of Flightradar24 Tweet: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1554501909893062656?s=21&t=Cl-c_WggOhoLXMqiIjZ5YQ over to AFP V045_32FV6FP; Pelosi disembarks at night in Taipei, over to Twitter videos of Taiwanese people cheering and filming the plane landing: https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1554513151710068736?s=21&t=NbwspVd_GUcRPsffkyw1gg))
(NARRATOR AND NAT SOUND OF TAIWAN RESIDENTS CHEERING AND PLANE LANDING)
In a move watched around the world, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei late Tuesday, defying threats from China. Flight trackers said her arrival was the most tracked live flight ever. Some Taipei residents turned out to cheer and film her arrival.
((Video: Chinese military and naval exercises: AFP V000_32FW3E6))
Screenshot of a Chinese mission to the UN Tweet featuring FM Wang Yi and dramatic music))
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China responded by launching military exercises in both the seas and airspace surrounding Taiwan and by lodging a formal protest with the U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns. Beijing also tweeted out a video by State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi calling Pelosi’s visit a “farce” and “perverse” and saying those who offend China will be punished.
((Video: MRT White House entrance B-roll: 13;17;16;23 MRT JEAN-PIERRE entrance BROLL and SOT: 13;26;41;25 MRT JEAN-PIERRE pelosis taiwan visit and americas china policy))
The White House sought to reduce tensions, saying the United States remains fully committed to its long-standing one-China policy, which recognizes Beijing but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei.
((Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary))
"There's no reason for Beijing to turn this visit, you know, just consistent with our policy, into some sort of crisis or to use it as a pretext to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait.”
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China claims self-governed Taiwan as its own, and regards Pelosi’s visit as a provocation, Brookings Institution’s Michael O’Hanlon tells VOA.
((Video: O’Hanlon SOT: https://app.frame.io/player/111379a7-f3c0-423e-9ecc-d9d91171e435 TC:00:00:58 - 00:01:59))
((Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution))
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“When Taiwan welcomes the speaker of the House of Representatives, the third ranking American official in the chain of command, then that seems perilously close in China's mind to a re-establishment of diplomatic relations - or at least a kind of rapport that smacks of diplomatic relations, which of course implies that the United States is treating Taiwan as a country.”
((Video: AFP V045_32FW3T6, Pelosi meets Taiwan’s President, Tracking shot US Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen greet people))
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Pelosi met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential palace and assured her the United States would not abandon its commitment to Taiwan. Tsai said the island of 23 million people would continue to hold the line in support of democracy and would not back down in the face of military threats from China.
O’Hanlon says he does not believe Pelosi’s visit will trigger a crisis.
((Video: O’Hanlon SOT: https://app.frame.io/player/111379a7-f3c0-423e-9ecc-d9d91171e435 TC: 00:02:44 - 00:03:44))
Radio Intro: Michael O’Hanlon is Director of Research, Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution.
((Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution))
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“I think that China will feel the need to attract some attention with its response to make us all feel a little bit worried for a few days and in the hope that that will discourage any repetition of this sort of thing. But I don't expect this to mushroom into a full-blown crisis on its own.”
((Video: AFP V000_32FW8MN, Pelosi on the tarmac leaving Taipei))
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Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday and headed to South Korea, as the 82-year-old speaker continues her history-making tour of Asia.
Cindy Saine, VOA News.
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Embargo DateAugust 3, 2022 22:30 EDT
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