China summons US ambassador over Pelosi’s Taiwan trip

 BEIJING, 03 August 2022, (TON): State media reported “China summoned the US ambassador in Beijing Tuesday to rebuke him over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s egregious trip to Taiwan.”

Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng voiced strong protests over Pelosi’s visit to the democratic self-governing island, which China considers part of its territory, during his talk with Ambassador Nicholas Burns.

“The move is extremely egregious in nature and the consequences are extremely serious,” Xie was quoted as saying by China’s state news agency Xinhua.

“China will not sit idly by.”

The trip by Pelosi, the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, sent tensions soaring between the world’s two largest economies, with Beijing regarding it as a major provocation.

 

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