House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the United States would not allow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to isolate Taiwan from the world and that the CCP is attempting to unilaterally change the status quo regarding the island government.
“We will not allow China to isolate Taiwan,” Pelosi said during a press conference on Aug. 10.
The comments come a week after a controversial visit by the House speaker to Taiwan, which CCP authorities used as justification to begin unprecedented military exercises in the seas and skies encircling the island.
Pelosi said that the CCP was manufacturing a crisis over her visit to Taiwan as a “pretext” to “intensify” its ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment against Taiwan….