Biden Warns Pelosi About Her Potential Trip to Taiwan, as China Threatens 'Strong Measures'
By Levon Satamian | Jul 21, 2022 4:15 PM ET
On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that President Biden has not directly spoken to her about an official trip to Taiwan.
Although Biden did not directly warn Pelosi, he did comment on the potential trip on Wednesday. He mentioned that the Pentagon is attempting to discourage the visit to Taiwan, due to concern about facing backlash from China. Biden said:
“The military thinks it’s not a good idea right now … but I don’t know what the status of it is.”
Pelosi did not say whether the trip was officially happening or not:
“You never even hear me say if I’m going to London, because it is a security issue,” she said — while suggesting the Pentagon’s concern is that Beijing would attack her plane, rather than allow it to land in Taipei.
“I think what the president was saying is that maybe the military was afraid that our plane would get shot down, or something like that, by the Chinese ,,, I don’t know exactly. I didn’t see it. I didn’t hear it.”
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