U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has praised Taiwan, pledged U.S. solidarity, and said her trip through Asia, which led to unprecedented military drills by an angry China, was never about changing the regional status quo.
Pelosi and a congressional delegation were in Japan on the last stage of an Asian trip, that included a brief and unannounced stop in Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Beijing considers its own.
Her stop in Taiwan, the highest-level visit by a U.S. official in 25 years, came as Tokyo, one of Washington’s closest allies, has become increasingly alarmed about China’s growing might, in the Indo-Pacific and the possibility that Beijing could take military action against Taiwan.