U.S. House Speaker Pelosi launched an Asian tour. Although the official itinerary was not included in Taiwan, sources revealed that the Taiwanese authorities have received a request for reception from the US. Pelosi and his party have expressed their visit to Taiwan. The military planes on the visiting delegation are expected to arrive at Songshan AirportHong Kong AirportHong Kong2 at about 10 o'clock tonight and will meet with Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te tomorrow morning.
will stay at Zhongshan District or Xinyi District Hotel. The American Association in Taiwan (AIT) is accustomed to arranging US visits to guests and stays in Grand Hyatt in Xinyi District or Marriott Hotel in Zhongshan District . This time, the chance of arranging Marriott is higher; however, the situation in China and the United States will change at any time, and relevant Taiwan units said that Pelosi is likely to stay overnight.
Pelosi's visit to Taiwan will be the highest level of the US visit to Taiwan after 25 years after the then Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kim Ruiqi visited Taiwan in 1997. Jin Ruiqi visited Taiwan at that time and stayed for less than 3 hours, which still caused quite a stir. It is expected that Pelosi may follow the follow the Jin Ruiqi model and keep a low profile flash visit.
As the third successor to the US President, news of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has stirred up the sensitive nerves of China and the United States. On April 2, 1997, Jin Ruiqi and his party took a US Air Force special plane from Tokyo, Japan, and arrived at Taipei Songshan Military Airport at 10:30 a.m. and left at 1:15 p.m. During his visit to Taiwan, Kim Ruiqi was in a sympathy with Lee Teng-hui, Lian Zhan , Zhang Xiaoyan and others at that time, and Lee Teng-hui also made inappropriate comments.
After 25 years, former U.S. House Speaker Kim Ruiqi, who had visited Taiwan, once again stated on August 1 that he hopes Pelosi can visit Taiwan, and said that mainland China is bluffing. In 1997, Jin Ruiqi led a delegation to visit Taiwan despite the strong opposition from mainland China.
King Ruiqi said on Fox News morning program Fox and Friends: "They are 'harassing' Taiwan every week. They fly the plane into Taiwan and recently announced live-fire exercises near Taiwan. Taiwan has 24 million people, with elections and news media. By the way, they produce about 67% of the world's high-value semiconductor chips. So this is a very important place."
