two aircraft carriers
According to the China Times, commercial satellite imagery to showIt is likely that Chinese aircraft carriers have left the ports of Sanya and Qingdao and are headed for the Taiwan Strait to confront the US military.
According to the publication, two Chinese aircraft carrier battlegroups have been deployed near the northern and southern ends of the Taiwan Strait in anticipation of a possible visit by Pelosi. At the same time, US military bases in East Asia were put on alert.
“China’s actions show that the conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan is escalating sharply,” the article says.
The authors of the publication recalled that representatives of mainland China, including the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have taken a firm stance many times recently over Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan.
In particular, Hua Chunying, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Tuesday that China will take decisive action.
“We are paying close attention to the Pelosi route, and if the United States acts without regard to the opinions of others, China will certainly take decisive and drastic measures to protect its sovereignty and security interests,” the diplomat said.
In response, Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the UN declarationHe said Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan would undermine relations between Beijing and Washington.
“From our point of view, such a planned visit undermines the principle of China’s indivisibility, undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and undermines stability and peace in the Taiwan Strait. It also undermines relations between China and the United States,” he said.
He also believes that the US authorities are well aware that “they will have to deal with all the consequences” of this visit.
On the eve it became known that China began military exercises near Taiwan. On Tuesday, users of the Chinese social network Weibo are posting photos and videos of the movement of military equipment on the streets and highways of the eastern province of Fujian, located across the strait just beyond the island of Taiwan, according to RIA Novosti. 100 kilometers away.
Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich thinksHe said China is unlikely to drop the chairman of the House of Representatives and the board of directors.
“At worst, if they shot down their plane, it would literally be an act of war. And we would have no choice but to launch a massive retaliatory strike. People tend to forget that despite the Pentagon’s weakness and stupid behavior, the United States still has a strong military,” Fox said. News.
plane on the way
Chinese media reported that Pelosi, leading a US delegation of 6 to 20 people, will land at Songshan Airport in Taipei between 21:00 and 22:30 local time on August 2, and then spend the night there. He will visit the Grand Hyatt Hotel and the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan parliament) on Wednesday morning, where he will meet with the island’s leadership, including the head of administration, Tsai Ing-wen. He is expected to leave the island at noon on Wednesday.
The United States has not officially confirmed the visit of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to Taiwan. It has been announced that he will visit Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. Still, if he decides to take a look at the island despite protests from the PRC, it will be the first visit by the president of the US House of Representatives since 1997.
According to open sources, China considers Taiwan as its territory. Although the United States has not declared that it recognizes the independence of the island from the PRC, it supports local authorities and supplies them with weapons, which causes discontent and protests from the Chinese authorities.
According to the Flightradar service, the US Air Force special flight Pelosi was traveling on now took off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, and is heading south.
Global Times newspaper knowledgeablereported that another US government plane had arrived in Malaysia from US Air Force Base Scott in Illinois. It is speculated that the Pelosi could be used to accompany a flight to Taiwan.
Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commented on the Telegram channel about the tension surrounding Pelosi’s possible visit to the Chinese island.
“Washington is destabilizing the world. “Not a single conflict has been resolved in recent years, but many have provoked it,” he wrote.