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<p data-trackable="subhead"><span>Speaker begins
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<p><span data-trackable="caption"> A MV-22 Osprey
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<p>TOKYO -- The U.S. military is moving assets,
including aircraft carriers and large planes,
closer to Taiwan ahead of an anticipated but
unconfirmed visit to the island by House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi.</p>
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is seen on the flight deck aboard amphibious
assault carrier USS Tripoli. The Tripoli is now
near Okinawa. © <span class="ezstring-field">U.S.
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<p>TOKYO -- The U.S. military is moving assets,
including aircraft carriers and large planes,
closer to Taiwan ahead of an anticipated but
unconfirmed visit to the island by House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi.</p>
<p>The military was initially opposed to the
speaker's visit but now looks to be creating a
buffer zone for Pelosi's plane, in case she
decides to go ahead with the controversial stop.</p>
<p>But with China declaring that it would "never sit
idly by" if she were to visit the island, tensions
in East Asia have quickly escalated, perhaps
against the will of both U.S. President Joe Biden,
who was seeking to remove some tariffs on Chinese
goods to counter inflation, and Chinese President
Xi Jinping, who faces a sensitive political season
at home with his rule extension on the line.</p>
<p>A reporter for local network TVBS tweeted that
the speaker is expected to arrive in Taiwan on
Tuesday evening.</p>
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<p>Pelosi and her congressional delegation landed in
Singapore before dawn on Monday, according to
flight tracking websites that followed the C-40C
military plane on which she left Washington.</p>
<p>Singapore's foreign ministry released a statement
on Monday afternoon saying the delegation met with
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and other
high-ranking officials. The ministry said Lee
welcomed the delegation's commitment to "strong
U.S. engagement" in the region and that they "also
exchanged views on key international and regional
developments, including the war in Ukraine,
cross-strait relations and climate change."</p>
<p>"PM Lee highlighted the importance of stable
U.S.-China relations for regional peace and
security," the statement said.</p>
<p>The city-state is the first stop on an
Indo-Pacific tour that will also take Pelosi and
her entourage to Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.
The speaker has been tight-lipped about her
reported plans to go to Taiwan.</p>
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<p>Naval assets in the region include the aircraft
carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which has returned to
the South China Sea after making a port call to
Singapore last week, the amphibious assault ship
USS Tripoli, which is near Okinawa, and the
amphibious assault ship USS America, which is
forward-deployed to Sasebo, Japan.</p>
<p>Further in the Pacific, the aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln, Landing Helicopter Dock USS Essex
and 36 other warships as well as three submarines
are in Hawaii taking part in the Rim of the
Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), which will end on
Thursday.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, flight tracking websites show two
HC-130J Combat King IIs -- the U.S. Air Force's
only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery
platform -- have arrived in Okinawa from
Anchorage. They were accompanied by multiple
KC-135 Stratotankers, an aerial refueling
aircraft.</p>
<p>"If she does visit Taiwan, the diplomatic
protocols will be very important," said Masahiro
Matsumura, a professor of international politics
and national security at the faculty of law of St.
Andrew's University in Osaka. "It will be
provocative if Pelosi visits Taiwan President Tsai
Ing-wen at the presidential office. Other options
could be the de facto U.S. Embassy in Taipei or
parliament."</p>
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data-trackable="image-inline"> <span
class="article__caption" style="max-width:
770px"> U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets
with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
in Singapore on Aug. 1. © <span
class="ezstring-field">Ministry of
Communications and Information, Singapore</span>
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<p>This is more of a diplomatic issue rather than a
military issue, Matsumura said, doubting whether
the Chinese side was militarily ready for a
confrontation with the U.S.</p>
<p>Still, Beijing has been issuing daily warnings
about the Pelosi visit.</p>
<p>On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesperson Zhao Lijian warned that a Pelosi
visit to Taiwan would lead to "very serious"
developments and consequences.</p>
<p>"We would like to tell the United States once
again that China is standing by, the Chinese
People's Liberation Army will never sit idly by,
and China will take resolute responses and strong
countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and
territorial integrity," he said at the ministry's
daily briefing.</p>
<p>Asked what kind of measures the PLA might take,
Zhao said: "If she dares to go, then let us wait
and see."</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of
the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said of the Pelosi
trip, "We will do what is necessary to ensure a
safe... conduct of their visit. And I'll just
leave it at that."</p>
<p>The rapid rise in tensions has caught Japan off
guard. Of its two Izumo-class multipurpose
destroyers, which are being transformed into de
facto light aircraft carriers, the JS Izumo is in
Hawaii taking part in RIMPAC, while JS Kaga is
under repair in the Kure Shipyard.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/1/22 13:46, René Oudeweg wrote:<br>
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