{"id":87277,"date":"2022-07-21T22:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87277"},"modified":"2022-07-21T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:49:15","slug":"us-china-relations-could-be-broken-by-pelosis-taiwan-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/us-china-relations-could-be-broken-by-pelosis-taiwan-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"US-China relations could be broken by Pelosi&#8217;s Taiwan visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world needs answers on Washington&#8217;s China policy, regardless of whether the US House Speaker visits Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been reports this week that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit southeast China&#8217;s Taiwan region in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington-Beijing relations will plunge to a new low if this happens, as this will be the highest level of contact between US officials and separatist forces in Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A similar announcement has been made in the past. After testing positive for COVID-19, Pelosi cancelled her trip to Taiwan in April this year. In anticipation of Pelosi&#8217;s trip taking place at another time, this latest development in the US-China saga has been anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the US government, Pelosi is the third-highest official. As second in line to the White House after Vice President Kamala Harris in the event of something happening to President Joe Biden. A visit by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to Taiwan is an extraordinarily high-level endorsement of Taiwan&#8217;s so-called government by the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world needs answers on Washington&#8217;s China policy, regardless of whether the US House Speaker visits Taiwan There have been reports this week that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit southeast China&#8217;s Taiwan region in August. Washington-Beijing relations will plunge to a new low if this happens, as this will be the highest level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106,94],"class_list":["post-87277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-china","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87279,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87277\/revisions\/87279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}