A group of US lawmakers will visit Taiwan on Thursday, the Central News Agency said.
Taipei:
Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported that another group of lawmakers will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday night, their third visit this month and despite pressure from Beijing to keep them from taking place. out.
China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory in the face of strong objections from the democratically elected government in Taipei, has conducted military exercises near the island after President Xia Xia House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in early August.
The Central News Agency did not name the lawmakers who were due to arrive on Thursday, saying only that they would arrive on a US military plane at Songshan Airport in downtown Taipei and would meet the President of Taiwan. Loan Tsai Ing-wen on Friday.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry said in a statement that “important guests” would arrive after 11 p.m. (1500 GMT) at Songshan airport. It gave no details and declined to comment further.
The de facto US embassy in Taipei declined to comment.
Pelosi’s visit angered China, which responded with ballistic missile tests for the first time over Taipei, and by abandoning some dialogue with Washington, including negotiations. military and climate change.
About a week later, five other US lawmakers tracked her down, and the Chinese military responded by conducting more exercises near Taiwan.
The United States has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan but is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
China has never ruled out the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
Taiwan’s government says the People’s Republic of China has never ruled the island and so has no claim to it, and that only its 23 million people can decide their future.
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