The visit will last two days and will include meetings with Taiwanese leaders on regional security and trade.
A delegation from five legislators from the United States traveled this Sunday to Taiwan for a business tour in the midst of the crisis with China unleashed by the recent trip to the island of the president of the US House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
The American Institute in Taiwan, which represents the US government on the island, announced in a statement that the visit it will last two days and which will include meetings with Taiwanese leaders on regional security and trade.
The delegation, which plans to visit other parts of the Indo-Pacific in addition to Taiwan, is made up of Democratic Senator Ed Markey, Democratic Congressmen John Garamendi, Alan Lowenthal and Don Beyer; and Republican Congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen.
“The delegation will meet with senior officials from Taiwan toembroider the relationships between USA and Taiwanregional security, trade, investment, global supply chains, the climate crisis, and other relevant issues of mutual interest,” said the American Institute.
Pelosi’s visit on August 2 exacerbated the tension between the United States and China, which considered the gesture as a show of support for the independence of the island and responded with military exercises with live fire and sanctions against Taiwan.
Last Wednesday, in her first press conference since her trip, Pelosi said that the United States will not allow China to isolate Taiwan and pointed out that the objective of his visit was to reaffirm “the strong relationship” between his country and the island.
At all times, the White House has sought to disassociate itself from this visit and has stressed that it was a personal decision by Pelosi, in addition to maintaining that she continues to support the ‘one China’ paradigm.