{"id":50974,"date":"2022-08-02T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50974"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:06:15","slug":"pelosi-congressional-delegation-statement-on-visit-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50974","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-pane pane-node-created\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\"><strong>AUGUST 2, 2022 <\/strong><i><strong>Taipei, Taiwan<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<\/i><i>Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Members of a Congressional Delegation issued this statement upon arrival in Taiwan.\u00a0 This visit is the first official visit to Taiwan by a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in 25 years<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u201cOur Congressional delegation\u2019s visit to Taiwan\u00a0honors America\u2019s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan\u2019s vibrant Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur visit is part of our broader trip to the Indo-Pacific \u2014\u00a0including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan \u2014\u00a0focused on mutual security, economic partnership and democratic governance.\u00a0 Our discussions with Taiwan leadership will focus on reaffirming our support for our partner and\u00a0on\u00a0promoting our shared interests, including advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific region.\u00a0 America\u2019s solidarity with the 23 million people of Taiwan is more important today than ever, as\u00a0the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur visit is one of several Congressional delegations to Taiwan \u2013 and it in no way contradicts longstanding United States policy,\u00a0guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, U.S.-China Joint Communiques and the Six Assurances. \u00a0The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/sites\/speaker.house.gov\/files\/featured_image\/Speaker%20Stream%20End.png\" alt=\"Speaker Pelosi Logo Thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUST 2, 2022 Taipei, Taiwan \u2013\u00a0Speaker&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50975,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974\/revisions\/50975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}