US cannot allow China's new normal overTaiwan, says Palosi

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that the United States cannot allow China to normalize a new level of pressure on Taiwan as Beijing conducted military drills around the island nation. Issuing a stern warning to Beijing, Ms. Pelosi said, China is trying to establish sort of a new normal and the US just cannot let that happen. China on Wednesday announced to end military drills around Taiwan but asserted that it will continue regular patrols around the island nation. The US House Speaker said that she went to Taiwan to praise the island nation and their friendship. She further added that China cannot isolate Taiwan. “We didn’t go there to talk about China. We went there to praise Taiwan. And we went there to show our friendship to say, ‘China cannot isolate Taiwan,’” Pelosi asserted. The visit delivered a clear statement that America’s commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific is unshakeable, Pelosi noted.

Last week, Ms. Pelosi visited Taiwan. It escalated tensions between the US and China. Ms. Pelosi is the highest-ranking US official to visit. The Chinese military exercises involved hundreds of warplanes, dozens of naval ships, including an aircraft carrier group with nuclear submarine in tow, amid assertions by the official media here that such war games in the busy Taiwan Strait will be a new normal.